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.
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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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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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’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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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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I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.
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The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio…well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.
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