Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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 earned my famous name.
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.