Joel Parkinson

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.