18 Quotes by Al Jardine

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.

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

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

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

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don’t have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

I’m pretty satisfied with how ‘Postcard’ turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

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'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.