Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.