What is the typical day in the life of Brian Wilson these days?
Lots of exercise. Try to write a song. You work on music every day? Every day of m life I go to the piano and try to write a song. Have you ever though about making another record with the Beach Boys? I haven’t thought of that. I think they want to do their own thing. I don’t think they want to work with me. I get the feeling they don’t want me around. On the Good Vibrations box set, there are some great outtakes and unreleased songs. There is a song from the Smile sessions called “Our Prayer.” Oh yeah! That’s got to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever written. Beautiful harmonies. After Pet Sounds, you started writing with Van Dyke Parks. You started working on Smile under the working title Dumb Angel. Right. I discarded that. I got high on pot one night and never used it. There’s also a song from the Smile sessions called “Vegetables,” which some people say Paul McCartney helped write. No, no, no. Paul was in the studio when we recorded it, but he didn’t help write it. He’s
