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

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.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

[in the sleeve notes for The Beach Boys 1964 album, "All Summer Long"] They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

On the beach, you can live in bliss.