People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.