If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.
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 never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
You have to be careful not to get overexposed.
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.
The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.
I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
I think the Beach Boys' legacy is 'Fun, Fun, Fun,' you know? We're calling our next tour '50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.' By and large, the Beach Boys' legacy is about incredibly positivity. We've traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music.
I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
