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.

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

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

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

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