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.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

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

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

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

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.