I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

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.

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

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.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.