I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.
Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.
When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.
When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.
