Before I actually got a hard surfboard at the age of 10, like a real board, I was always just trying to stand up on boogie boards or rafts or whatever I had, trying to emulate the people that I saw surfing the waves out there.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

The Surf Lodge has got to be seven or eight years I've been playing there, every summer. It's definitely one of the most fun gigs of our whole East Coast tour. The beautiful atmosphere, amazing stage overlooking that beautiful lagoon - it's just a really hip, cool spot to play. We always look forward to it, every year.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.