Portrait of the artist: Brian Wilson, musician

'I don't relate to movies. There's just never been any I liked – I find them cold, somehow'What got you started?My dad teaching me how to play boogie woogie on the piano when I was 12. I taught myself the rest.What was your big breakthrough?When we [the Beach Boys] recorded Surfin' USA. It came out on a Los Angeles label and was a hit straight away.Does an artist need to suffer to create?He certainly has to go through a lot of mental changes. It may not be suffering exactly, but it can lead ...

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