Quotes from Dhani Harrison

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.