highlights include:
"To this day, I maintain that my days of doing shoulder spins and “the robot” greatly benefited my skateboarding."
"Looking back I can see I was learning to communicate with my skating."
"In my blood I felt I was going to do something special and different,"
"My reputation at school morphed from the skater guy to the music guy".
"my cd was getting reviewed in lots of publications, the most notable being Scene Magazine. The jerk, I mean critic, went on how talented I was but slammed me for this and that. Actually, this was good practice for what was waiting for me in the future.... criticism made my skin very thick."
"Even the pros seemed to be thinking, “Who the hell is this guy?”"