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.

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.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

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.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

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.