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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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" Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired. "

" The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them. "

" I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song. "

" I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff. "

" 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. "

" You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same. "

" I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound. "

" I have to tell you that 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. "

" Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun. "

" Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music. "

" My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. "

" It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys. "

" Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career. "

" There's no outdoing The Beatles. "

" 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. "

" I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often. "

" To wear a floral shirt is an experience. "

" I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody. "

" I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it's black and white. When there's a song there's a song, when there's not there's not. "

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" Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is. "

" What in the world is a hangover cure? "

" If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. "

" I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy. "