I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.