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

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

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one way or another, you get influenced.

I don't really try to set any long-term goals.

I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up.

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

I just think that's the most amazing thing to be able to go to places like Japan and surf all day and then that night, play music. It's never been one of those things that's disrupted the flow of one and other, they've just enhanced one and other. It's incredible. It's beautiful that I found these two things that help each other out.