As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

that's as nutty as squirrel turds

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.