I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.