The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.
Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.
I'm a sun and ocean guy.
When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.
I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
I've been boogie-boarding, off and on, since I was a kid. But I started being devoted to the cause of getting up every morning to surf, when I'm in Los Angeles, about a decade or so ago.
I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.
I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
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