Quotes from Mike Love

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

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 was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

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.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.