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" Everyone's seen the Beatles. "
Seen
Beatles
Everyone
" I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you. "
Work
Play
You
" I did everything I could to not be a musician. "
Did
Musician
Everything
" I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him. "
Family
Go
Travel
" I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard. "
Anything
Name
Music
" 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. "
Star
Want
Me
" I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. "
Two
Woody Guthrie
Woody
" 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. "
Music
Community
Love
" I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan. "
Fan
Huge
" I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. "
Being
Composer
Maybe
" In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation. "
People
Generation
See
" I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. "
Still
Love
Attack
" I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.' "
Recently
Roth
Tim
" 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. "
Want
Company
Head
" It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own. "
Funny
Growing Up
Music
" 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. "
Know
You
Work
" I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. "
Out
Child
Only
" 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. "
Father
Time
Healing
" My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.' "
Like
You
Say
" One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool. "
Father
Cool
You
" Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song. "
Song
Bell
Me
" The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me. "
Want
Way
Guitar
" Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really. "
Prototype
Really
Sort
" You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry. "
You
Because
Going
" 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. "
Own
Teachers
You
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