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My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I was not playing.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I was not bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science was not what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

As a father, I do everything my dad did not do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I found myself very lost after The Partridge Family, and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I am laughing about it now!

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad did not have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they did not complain. They did not murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

My dad used to say to me, You look more like me than I do.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It is 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.

I do not 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.

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 do not have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Keep your head down at school. Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.;Dhani Harrison;dad 12754;Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It is the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.;Dhani Harrison;dad 12755;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.;Dhani Harrison;dad 12756;I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I have done that kind of stuff for ages. It was not until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.

When my dad toured in 91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

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

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I have got two uncles who are in their 90s now.