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When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.