I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.