I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

The music is mine. Theres nothing to hide behind. Thats where you see the real person.

It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

It’s not important to be consistent, it’s important to be right.

All feete tread not in one shoe.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.