- Vegas is a crazy place
'cause from here down over to the Strip over there,
it's a whole different world.
It's like real easy to get pulled into the going out
every night, going to bars, going to clubs.
It's real easy to do here in Vegas
'cause it just never ends.
The safest thing was for me
to go out and get a job in a casino.
It would be the obvious top sign that you have this formula
that you know is gonna work,
but I refused to give into that.
I would rather struggle than do anything else.
And it's like, I'm the one that's locked in here.
When I'm chasing those shapes,
whatever lines I feel look good,
it's when I feel the absolute freest
because really I can do whatever I want.
My dad was a dentist and when school would be over,
I would have to go straight with him to the lab
and I hated it.
In order to keep me out of trouble,
he would try teaching me things that were more involved.
I started realizing that it was because of that
I kind of got into working with my hands.
It just taught me how to work.
That's probably one of the most important things
that I learned from him was working.
I got the email asking if I'd be interested
in doing something with Royal Enfield.
The Continental motor itself, you can almost build
anything around it, it's guaranteed to be special.
What I liked about it, it just has that classic shape to it.
So I wanted to stay true to Royal Enfield,
knowing that they're one
of the longest-standing manufacturers.
I started the same that I always do,
I jigged the motor up on my table
and I just start bending lines around it
and everything grows from that motor outwards.
I'm just making it based on what it is that I like
and what this note that I'm playing right now,
what's gonna complement that.
It's always changing.
I think that's what I also need,
that's what I mean by freedom.
Once I do something, I kinda wanna see what else I can do.
I wanna see what else, what other sounds are out there.
I'm beating on this metal,
I'm hammering on this thing that I'm making into a gas tank.
Everybody else around me, it might just be noise,
but for me I'm constantly communicating
with this thing.
Like, partnership that I have with this piece
that's sitting in front of me because I don't want
to mess it up and I'm sure, in some way,
this thing doesn't wanna become a piece of scrap
in the bin, it wants to be out having some sort of meaning.
If I do it right and if it communicates with me,
it gets that and I get to finish it.
The bike, when you look at it, it looks like this
little quiet thing and then you fire it up.
It has like this crazy sound to it.
Once I took that thing out for the first time,
it's like early in the morning when you have that crisp air
and just the light, the sun was just coming out perfect,
bouncing off of the mountains, just being exhausted
and knowing that yesterday or all of last week,
the last couple of weeks have been the complete opposite
to this moment right now.
It was completely worth it, just for that.
And it just, really, it exceeded my expectations.
It reminded me of what it was all about.
Going through that struggle for all that time,
it's like I forgot what it was for.
You can sit in front of a piano and just like touch a key,
and touch another key, and touch another key,
but then you put enough focus into it
and you start bringing those notes together,
and when it's all done it's a song.
Now you can sit back and you can listen to it
and you enjoy it.
Like all the people that helped me, that's a big part.
My brother and Albie was here 24 hours straight
for no other reason than because they believe
in what you're doing.
It gives you purpose.
It's just knowing that I have that support
is probably what I value the most.
To my kids, this isn't really anything special.
They've just been around this thing since they were born.
They're just like, oh that's cool.
Looks like the last one.
(laughing)
What I do see in them though is that drive to create.
That makes me happy because, even though I feel like I'm
doing the same thing that my dad was doing to me,
I trust that they'll grow up and do something special
to feel this freedom that I feel.