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.
BRIAN WILSONSo it’s 1976 and we’re still riding on our past success. I mean I’ve gone on like that for I don’t know how long.
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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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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So it’s 1976 and we’re still riding on our past success. I mean I’ve gone on like that for I don’t know how long.
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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 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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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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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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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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I earned my famous name.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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