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

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.

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.

Definitely my wife and my kid [are my biggest inspiration].

Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?

Her dark eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she stared up at me. "You are a moon child. She calls to you.

Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.

Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.