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.
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.
My job description is… being enthusiastic.
I don’t ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
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 suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated – which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate – and just do whatever you want.
I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’
Someone recently played me ‘Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell’ by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
Once I started to get older, my father would say, ‘You look more like George Harrison than I do’
Live a Lie’ is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.
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.
I did everything I could to not be a musician.
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