Quotes About Fulfillment

When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I've ever had creatively: having 'Transatlanctism' and 'Give Up come' out in the course of six months. I'll never have another year like that.

You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I wish I could skate every single day.

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We've been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we've given up a lot of things and we've been training really hard our entire lives, we've been able to maintain great social lives.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

I have a life outside of skating.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

At the Olympics, once I got there it was more about the full experience and skating to the best of my ability.

We'll know when our skating career is over by how we've progressed over the years and if we think we've got to a place where we couldn't do any better - then it would be time to retire.

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.