I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.
I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: 'Where are my ice skates?' because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: 'Dad is selling them now… we don't have money for this week.'
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are blades.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
