We were like a traveling jukebox, and then we added cheerleaders to the jukebox and it started to look like an overly decorated Christmas tree.

We're somehow confined to our name, the Beach Boys; it confines you to a certain image, but there's so much there that's so rich.

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

It just got to be too much of a circus and I wanted to put the music back in the show, so I created this idea of doing what I've called the b-sides.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.