After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?
The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.
Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.
I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.
I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
We'll show the fire how to burn.
I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.
When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Don't spend. . . but mend yourself.