I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I'm awkward around girls.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Everything that happens to you is self-created.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.