The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

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.

Love simply is.

It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present.

Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

And to be able to do it, to be able to accomplish the goal you've always set for yourself is always a blessing.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.