<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section focuses too much on specific examples without explaining their importance to its main subject . Please help improve this article by citing reliable, secondary sources that evaluate and synthesize these or similar examples within a broader context . (May 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> McCartney has called it his favorite song of all time . In an interview with David Leaf in 1990 he stated, "I was asked recently to give my top 10 favorite songs for a Japanese radio station...I didn't think long and hard on it but I popped that (God Only Knows) on the top of my list . It's very deep . Very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one ." Speaking again in 2007, McCartney said: "' God Only Knows' is one of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it . It's really just a love song, but it's brilliantly done . It shows the genius of Brian . I've actually performed it with him and I'm afraid to say that during the sound check I broke down . It was just too much to stand there singing this song that does my head in and to stand there singing it with Brian ." Brian responded apprehensively to McCartney's admiration of the song in the 1970s: "Like, if' God Only Knows' is the greatest song ever written, then I'll never write anything as good again! And if I never write anything as good, then I'm finished ." </P> <P> The song inspired songwriter Margo Guryan to move into writing pop music . She said: "I thought it was just gorgeous . I bought the record and played it a million times, then sat down and wrote' Think of Rain' . That's really how I started writing that way . I just decided it was better than what was happening in jazz ." Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne wrote that "It's impossible to exaggerate how beautiful this song is . Everywhere, it takes risks ." Bono said in October 2006 during Brian Wilson's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame that "the string arrangement on' God Only Knows' is fact and proof of angels". Jimmy Webb, an American popular music composer, has also stated his love for the song, stating, "I love' God Only Knows' and its bow to the baroque that goes all the way back to 1740 and Johann Sebastian Bach . It represents the whole tradition of liturgical music that I feel is a spiritual part of Brian's music . And Carl's singing is pretty much at its pinnacle--as good as it ever got ." In a 2003 solo concert in Tel Aviv, Steven Wilson, frontman of Porcupine Tree, declared "God Only Knows" as his favorite song of all time . On the Insurgentes listening party that took place in Mexico City in 2009, Steven Wilson said it was a perfect song . Simon Neil of Scottish band Biffy Clyro has the lyrics "God only knows what I'd be without you" tattooed across his chest . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1998: Boogie Nights </Li> <Li> 2003: Love Actually </Li> <Li> 2003: My Life Without Me </Li> <Li> 2004: Saved! </Li> </Ul>

Which musician considered the beach boys' god only knows as a perfect song