"Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that."
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"Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie."
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"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.'"
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"'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years."
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"Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'"
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"I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community."
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"One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool."
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"I was an only child. I hung out with my parents."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him."
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"Everyone's seen the Beatles."
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"I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard."
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"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."
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