I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

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 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.

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

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.