The aloha spirit is real simple. You give and you give and you give . . . and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give.

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

I'm very competitive.