“When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.”

When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you’re at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they’ll figure out I’ve got millions, but hopefully they’ll have the values to say, ‘So what?

I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.

When you get old, it’s hard to tell what’s memory and what you’ve kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

There’s an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.

I couldn’t be happier with where my life’s at right now.

No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.

Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right.

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old – break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don’t listen anyway.

Fame is like a big eraser. It’s strange, now that I’m famous. In my parents’ opinion, all the shitty things – all the wreckage of my past – is erased.

The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.

I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.

I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they’re going to see it, especially her guy friends.

I’m always an entrepreneur, but I’d probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that’s tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.