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.

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.

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

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.

Everyone expects me to do certain things.

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.