Brian Wilson recently sat down with NPR for an interview.

While there’s much to process from his past, Wilson is living in the present, touring with a band for the 50th anniversary of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. (“I feel pretty good,” he says. “People love it, they just love it.”) And he’s also looking toward his future. He says he plans to write “a rock ‘n’ roll album” soon — one “that’s gonna make people want to dance, clap and yell.”