To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else.

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films.

We pray everyday. We read the bible everyday, so everybody's happy.