I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

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