Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.