I Am Brian Wilson: The Genius Behind The Beach Boys

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' My life has been written about over & over again & that's mostly okay with me Other people can talk about my life Sometimes they'll get it right & sometimes they'll get it wrong For me when I think back across my own life there are so many things that are painful Sometimes I don't like discussing them Sometimes I don't even like remembering them But as I get older the shape of that pain has changed Sometimes memories come back to me when I least expect them Maybe that's the only way it works when you've lived the life I've lived starting a band with my brothers that was managed by my father watching my father become difficult & then impossible watching myself become difficult & then impossible watching women I loved come & go watching children come into the world watching my brothers get older watching them pass out of the world Some of those things shaped me Others scarred me Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference When I watched my father fly into a rage & take swings at me & my brothers was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow frustrated with his day job & take solace in music was that shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I can't get to them all at once I've had a whole lifetime to take them in Now I have a whole book to put them out there' Excerpt from I Am Brian Wilson