"He was just extraordinary, like otherworldly"
"One of my all time favourite songs ever"
"If there’d been no Beach Boys, there would have been no 'Racing In The Street'"
“Mark E Smith got in my car thinking I was a taxi in 1997”
“How we will continue without Brian Wilson, ‘God Only Knows’”
The tortured but brilliant creative mind and bedrock of The Beach Boys forever changed how artists and audiences alike create and consume music, helping build a limitless new world with his playful pop songs
"Our journey together was filled with moments of brilliance, heartbreak, laughter, complexity and most of all, LOVE"
"Today, one of my heroes died... so I'm gonna sing a song that I love"
"I think the most comforting thought right now is that you are reunited with Carl and Dennis, singing those beautiful harmonies again"
He also previously described the classic as “one of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it”