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

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 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.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

You have to win something for people to think about you.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

I’ve always hated being looked at.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

Drawing is the root of everything.

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.