Traveling is also a big inspiration for me.

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.

Definitely my wife and my kid [are my biggest inspiration].

I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly. I left teeth marks!

You will be what you really want to be.

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.