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 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.

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 was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I even knew who he was. And for seven years people would follow me about school singing 'Yellow Submarine.' I still can't listen to that song to this day.

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.

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.

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.