When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.