Being a husband and a dad is my inspiration.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one way or another, you get influenced.

Traveling is also a big inspiration for me.

There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.

Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.

I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.