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

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.

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.

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

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

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.