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

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

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

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

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.