I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.

The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.

Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, the power of subduing the elements, of using the secret virtues of minerals, of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

I love working with my friends.

'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to listen. I was in London at the time for my world tour. I heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.