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.
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 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.
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 have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
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.
My job description is... being enthusiastic.
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
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.
Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
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.
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.
I did everything I could to not be a musician.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
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.
