Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

On the beach, you can live in bliss.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

She knew too much. -A