I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise.

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

I love the Lord with my life and through that love, I walk the walk, I don't just talk the talk.

Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.