I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

I believe correcting is the positive approach. I believe in the positive approach. Always have.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.