I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.