Carey Hart took motorcross to new heights. AP

Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Carey Hart for the magazine's Q&A. The 30-year-old freestyle motocross star is married to rocker Pink and appears on A&E's reality show Inked. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:

SI: Your tattoo shop at the Palms casino in Las Vegas, Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company, is the subject of the A&E show. Have you inked any athletes?

Hart: We've done a lot of Sacramento Kings basketball players, since the Maloofs [owners of the Palms] own the teams. I've done motocross guys, and guys like Tony Hawk and Christian Fletcher, the pro surfer. And I can't remember the kid's name, and I know this is horrible: We tattooed CHOSEN 1 across his back ...

SI: Uh, LeBron James?

Hart: There you go [laughs].

SI: You appeared on the fifth season of The Surreal Life, alongside Jose Canseco. What is your most vivid memory of living with him for two weeks?

Hart: I know there's controversy surrounding him, but as a person, the guy was amazing. He was cool and totally levelheaded. We talked about sports and training and physical things. We had a lot of cool talks. There was a weird book signing [during the show] when people came to the house and people were saying some nasty stuff to him. He just shrugged it off. He said, "You have your opinion and I respect that," and he signed books. To be able to rise above that, he's probably a better man than me. There would be a lawsuit pending against me, as well as a broken hand and a snapped face.

SI: Will motocross or BMX biking ever be part of the Olympics?

Hart: I don't know how the politics work for the Olympics. But take supercross, for instance. Supercross can sell out 65,000 people at Anaheim Stadium and every other stadium in the series and do the same thing in Spain and everywhere else in the world. Yet it's not allowed in the Olympics. I can understand to a point. There is a motor involved and it's not just raw, personal athletics. But there comes a certain point where at the end of the day, the Olympics are about ratings and sponsorships. What's going to get better ratings? Curling or supercross? 

SI: How many days a year are you on a bike?

Hart: At least two days a week.