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If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

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Brian Wilson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 20
Actor
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Inglewood
California
Brian Douglas Wilson
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I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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