The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.
They'll try to apply the rules of the day to the game, where you can't touch your board with your hands, or you can't step off your board, etc and I want nothing to do with it. It's like a game from a different planet or something and it's hard for me to relate to anybody who would think of skateboarding in such a narrow way.
I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.
When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world. . . "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark. . . "
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.