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" 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. "

Dhani Harrison

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" One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool. "