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.

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

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.

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

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.