When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.