I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

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.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.