Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.
Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.
The Tokyo Dome Big Air contest (in 2003) was my first trip to Japan. I think I won it with a double back or something. Those events were fun. I was underaged, like 19 or 20, and going over to Japan in the very beginning was insane. It was amazing.
I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
We faced blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, and of course dangerous snow conditions and vertiginous drops. That's what you get when you're working with fickle mother nature - you start out with a solid plan and it always changes, so you have to evolve and adapt.
When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.
I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.
Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die.
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.