There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.

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

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

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.