I sit and I write automatically. I don’t really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I’m inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.
BRIAN WILSONI listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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I have stage fright every single concert I’ve ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It’s absolute living hell.
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I’m terrible and I’m going to die, and they’re usually worse in the afternoon.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can’t understand what they are saying. It’s a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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I’m doing good. I’ve had a slight nervous breakdown in the ’60s. I got through that. And I got through the ’70s. And I was in a doctor’s program during the ’80s and then I met Melinda and we’ve been together ever since. I’ve got a happy life.
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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