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'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

Queen Latifah was the first time I had ever professionally written with another woman of any color.

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

There is no substitute for excellence - not even success.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Jesus Christ is God's everything for man's total need.

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show stopping meals every night for their hard working husbands.

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.