All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

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.

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

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

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.

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

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

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

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

He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

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.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I dont see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. Its music.

Want to know a Secret? Someone out there can't stop thinking about you.You are Beautiful. Don't ever believe differently.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

Tolerance has to be shown by those who come to this country for a new way of life. If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws, respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from.

Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Sometimes you're left with only 1 choice: Take what's yours and run for your life.

People Underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.