All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

