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"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."
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"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
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"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."
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"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."
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"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."
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"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
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"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
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"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
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"There are never enough I Love You's."
Love

"When you're eight years old nothing is your business."
Business

"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."
Time

"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God."
God

"The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is."
People

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."
First

"The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't."
Art

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
God

"Communism is like one big phone company."
Communism

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
School
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