Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.