I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
BRIAN WILSONEvery 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 always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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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I earned my famous name.
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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on…like ‘California Girls’ which was a hymn to youth.
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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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.
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You say how you feel, and songs don’t lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is–there’s nothing that lies about a song.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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The only reason I’d ever get a sex change operation is to see what it’s like to be right all the time.
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Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
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