"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 recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall."

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

"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."

"Wisdom principle 11 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 19."

"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."

"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

"I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there."