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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think of... it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need both.

I am terrified of submarines.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.