“I mean, it’s great to play with other surf bands, but we’re having success out playing with, you know, tribute bands, cover bands, original bands, blues bands. We played with a yacht rock band over the weekend, and people loved us, you know. I think surf music itself, it’s fun music. People love to dance and have a good time. And I think if you love to dance and have a good time, surf music’s for you, especially the instrumental stuff because it’s great guitar music too.” —Deven Berryhill (The Tourmaliners, Frontman & Guitarist)

“A lot of them are set in the middle of a story. So something happened before. You’re looking at something, and then something’s gonna happen later, which I did to kind of engage people so they’d look at the art longer, you know, and try and figure out what was going on. [Give me one one of your favorites.] Oh, I think one of my favorites is set in Palm Springs, and it’s in one of those classic mid-century modern houses. It’s a cocktail party and there’s a dead bird on the floor and people at the party are looking appalled. And then if you look to the far right of the painting, there’s a woman in an evening gown and she’s hiding a gun behind her back. So, you know, you gotta figure out what the story is, basically.” —Josh Agle AKA Shag (Painter, Designer, Illustrator)

“[On his early roles in Stand By Me and Lost Boys] It’s just a job. I was a kid. I did what I was told. You know? What matters to me is the work I’m gonna do today because that’s what really matters. You know? It’s where we are today, what we’re living today, what’s our experience today. The past is the past and it’s gone. You can’t change it. You can’t fix it. It is what it is. It’s all about moving forward and having the right attitude and a positive attitude. For all the kicks, for all the hits, for all the shoves that I’ve taken throughout my life, one thing that I can teach you and tell you, or a pearl of wisdom I can give you, is always smile in the face of adversity. And keep a positive attitude, keep the faith, and things will always turn around as long as we have another day to live.” —Corey Feldman (Actor, Producer, Director, Musician)

“[On writing a memoir honoring his wife, Christina] It was very cathartic, and I got it all out. And I was able to tell our story. And, you know, she was a wonderful, wonderful, beautiful human being. So I wanna make sure people know that she was, just, you know, a great lady. And we have a foundation that we set up in her honor. It’s called the Christina Mauser Foundation, and we give scholarships to young women going into playing sports in college, that, you know, aren’t getting scholarships. So we give them scholarships based on their character and what they’re like with their teammates and just, you know, how hard they work and kind of embody what Christina stood for.”
—Matt Mauser (Matt Mauser Big Band, Tijuana Dogs)

“I feel like if I go back to the initial audition I did for this film, there’s not that much information given to the actor about the project and the role. But I paid attention to one little detail that told me that he works for a tyrant. And because I grew up in communism - I grew up in the 80’s in Poland and East Germany, both communist countries - so I experienced communism til I was about 11 years old. I kind of had a feeling, you know, like, what it is to work for a tyrant, what it is to work for a dictator, and being a general, being the head of the army. I had to show toughness in front of other people, but absolute and complete obedience in front of him.” —Martin Harris (Actor, Writer, Producer, Plays Boravian General in James Gunn’s Superman)

“The Jimmy Dale Trio is more, so like we tip the hat to my Dad. I'm starting to bleed in a couple of my own songs in the set, which are watered-down Kill Jill songs. I take the lyrics out, and I kinda write a guitar melody over them and make them really surfy, but I still keep it like power surf, like Dad tone, you know, not the thin guitar strings and over the top reverb. I keep it true to my Dad's tone.” —Jimmy Dale (The Jimmy Dale Trio, Son of Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar)

“So I think my favorite thing is just doing the really large extravagant grazing tables. I think creatively that’s where I have the most fun, and I think that’s where we shine as a company. You can just bring in so many different cheeses and dips and spreads and cured meats, and you just make this, like, spectacular presentation that really elevates any event or gathering that you go to.” —Alyssa Paine (Newport Charcuterie, Founder & Creative Director)

“I mean, first of all, you have people that - the internet has obviously changed things incredibly, Facebook and all of that - and people write stuff that you just know is wrong, right? You say that’s not right. And people become experts on things that they were never a part of, and that tends to bother me. If I do write a book or record something, I’m gonna call it Setting the Record Straight, right? What really happened because I was there every day. In fact, I lived at the radio.”
—The Insane Darrell Wayne (Radio Personality and DJ)

“[Did he deliver all of you guys when your Mom got pregnant and, you know, had you?] Yes, he did. He delivered most of us kids. He delivered me, I know that for sure. And then most of my brothers were born in Hawaii, so they have the distinction of being blessed by Duke Kahanamoku, which I’m sure was a great experience and, you know, obviously something I wish I would have gotten. But that’s cool, whatever.”
—Joshua Paskowitz (Paskowitz Surfing Family)

“[Speaking of crazy, how crazy did it get in those early days?] You were lucky if the show actually happened because, you know, there’s a lot of halls rented out without permits and people selling alcohol illegally, and the police, even if it was a legitimate show, the police just didn’t really like the way the punks looked. And they really weren’t singing about peace and love like hippies, which obviously the police didn’t like that scene, and these punkers come up and think about destroying the system and changing things in a more aggressive way. They just wanted to come in break up shows and wreak havoc and attack the people, unprovoked most of the time.” —Greg Hetson (Guitarist, Circle Jerks, Bad Religion)

“I was living in Boston. I went to a Nirvana/Breeders show in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, way like, an hour outside of that city. I took a train there and the train had stopped running. I didn’t know how I was gonna get home. I had a backstage pass. I was, you know, just like. Kurt was walking up the stairs with a bunch of kids, and I go, does anyone know how I can get back to Boston? And he turns and looks at me and goes, I do. And I went back home with all the people he was with.”
—Jonny Polonsky (Songwriter, Rock Guitarist, Singer, Multi-instrumentalist and Record Producer)

“[On being typecast as a Terrorist] I’m labeled as a distinguished, weathered man, and I’ve been playing terrorists the last twenty five years. I’ve done Iron Man (2008), 12 Strong (2018), American Sniper (2014). I’ve done so many terrorist movies.The reason I’m picking the terrorist character is because I wanna introduce how evil they are.” —Fahim Fazli (Actor, Author, Motivational Speaker)

“I didn’t think that was going to be so strange for people, but I like to dress up. I don’t know, I thought this was show business, so I’m just trying to put on a show.” —Jesika Von Rabbit (Joshua Tree-based Solo Artist & former Gram Rabbit frontwoman)

“This man that you’re listening to, The Poorman, Jim, is the creator and the host of Loveline and I am so honored to be speaking with you. Well, the issue at hand with what you dealt with and what exists is that when you work for a company, it has been decided by somebody that whatever you do and whatever you create belongs to the company while you’re working for them. So Loveline basically is the property of the company that you worked for and you created that. That was yours. You built it. You thought of it. You hosted it, and you made it great. And the court said, well screw you, they own it because you created it while you worked for them.” —Mark Thompson (Radio Personality, DJ, formerly of The Mark & Brian Show)

“It’s fascinating because who knew that twenty five years later comic books were going to be relevant and important, and particularly to our cultural zeitgeist of what’s going on out there.” —Alexander Gray (Producer, Director, Writer)

“Well, I was the lead, or the trombone section leader, and it was pretty tight back there as the game was nearing the end. The band had gone down to field level for our traditional postgame concert, which we thought was gonna be a victory rally, and it was pretty tight in there. And so once once the clock went down to zero, it just sort of loosened up. I backed up into the end zone, and Kevin Moen just ran right through me.” —Gary Tyrrell (Stanford Trombone Player, Cal Football’s The Play, 1982)

“A little bit of fame started to happen. We started to get, you know, popular in different places like, you know, like Seattle and Detroit and Miami and Dallas. And there were cities around, and we were playing and going and, and doing all this stuff. And there was a new sound on the radio. Radio stations didn’t really know what to do with it.” — Jamie James (The Kingbees, Lead Singer, Guitarist, Founding Member)

“Me and my friend Billy golfed at Westlake last week at Westlake Golf Course. And when I took him by the bridge, it’s kinda trippy going by there. Every time I go out to Westlake, I gotta go say hi to the firefighters that rescued me.” — Matthew Thomas (Founder of Positive-Matters.Org)

“[On the NFL embracing the tradition] They like that we celebrate the last player. You know, we try and make him equal to feeling like he’s equal to the first player selected. So, you know, we give him gifts and parties and the Lowsman Trophy. And so we celebrate Kobee, I think, better than the first guy, but definitely better than the next to last guy. But that was my Dad’s idea.” — Melanie Salata-Fitch, Mr. Irrelevant Announcer

“My first film was Halls of Anger (1970), and it was about a racial high school issue. You know, they bus white kids to a black school and stuff like that.” — DeWayne Jessie (Otis Day and The Knights)