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

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

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.

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

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

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

Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I WannaHold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits.