Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

Everyone expects me to do certain things.

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.