I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.

I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.