Surfer Culture Quotes

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

Going back to the films I made in the nineties, they might not have been the most thought-provoking movies, but there was always this conscious thing of knowing that it was fourteen-year-old surfers who were really into it, and so I've wanted to be responsible with that.

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.