Dhani Harrison

“I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.”

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

“I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.”

“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'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.”

“Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.”

“I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'”

“My job description is... being enthusiastic.”

“My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'”

“When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.”

“I did everything I could to not be a musician.”

“Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.”

“I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.”

“I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.”

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

“In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.”