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

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

[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.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

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.

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.