Through my surfing, I met all my friends that helped me out in the music world, and so that's kind of how it all began. So, it was the surfing and then the music.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one way or another, you get influenced.

Traveling is also a big inspiration for me.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

America is to great to dream small dreams.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.