Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Prayer is my chief work

The kind of bs is dead. Long live the queen.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.