On the beach, you can live in bliss.

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

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.

On the beach, you can live in bliss.

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

[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 made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.