I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'