Everyone expects me to do certain things..

I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that….

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new..

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall..

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality..

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it..

Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you d….

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expr….

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-….

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it..

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dro….

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with..

Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, wa….

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or ev….

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief..

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward..

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable w….