Quotes from Brian Wilson

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.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.

The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.

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 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.

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

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

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

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

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.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

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.

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

I earned my famous name.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

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.