I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me as well, especially in L.A. So skateboarding was the cool thing to do and I was totally attracted to it and once I saw the magazines... that was it, I knew this was what I wanted to do for a living.

Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.