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.

[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.

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

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

On the beach, you can live in bliss.

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.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.