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

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

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.

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

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

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