When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

I'd rather walk than drive a car. In Vancouver, where I am from, you can get to just about anywhere you need to go on foot. Even if it's raining I'll go out for a stroll. I just love that.

I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.