I've had dreams about tricks.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
You're either down or you're up.
On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.
When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.
Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.
I have the most fun snowboarding when it's just me and my brother.
I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.
United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.
There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.
The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.
When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.
It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.
Surfers have the most attitude.
If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
You have to be prepared to take a spill.
What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.
Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.
