Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

I have a great faith in every generation's ability to come up with its own music.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

The concept is one that people get—the ability to enjoy your music, photos and videos from anywhere in your room. It's all in the implementation and execution. You can see the Apple details—it's an experience unlike anything else that exists.

What's exciting is the ability to reach a large audience with this music, and have people who may be casual fans of The Beach Boys to realize that there's not just some fun songs there, but a major and important artist at work,