CF: Skateboarding could be seen as that, but it could also be seen as planting a seed and growing as a person. Of course I could talk about the negative right now and say, `Yeah, I'm going to be self destructive and I'm going to end up like a piece of shit because I'm a skateboarder, you know, so f**k everything.' But that's not necessarily the route I want to go. Some people want to go the negative route and self-destruct by doing drugs and being rebellious to a point of being stupid. But you could also prove a point rebelling by saying, `F**k this if it's this way. I'm going to do a positive thing, you know, and move forward.'
TT: As a skateboarder, what inspires you?
CF: I get inspiration off figures that have changed things. You know, like Andy Warhol thought differently, and he didn't care if people said, `That's just a piece of sh*t thing you got at the junkyard or the swap meet or the market.' He turned it into art. It was his perspective on things: `This is cool. I'm saying this is cool, because I see it differently.' And he made people see things in his way, and I think that's amazing. Yeah, he's probably an outcast, a weirdo -- whatever. You know, he wore wigs. But it was just what he was doing, and he was thinking for himself -- that kind of character is what I get inspired by. For me, the attitude is in the approach, and that's what I get hyped on.
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