When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

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.

Talent is cheap

I want you to be happy, " I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you, " I say. 'You deserve that.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.