The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSONI 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 think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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 still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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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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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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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I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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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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