I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

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.

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.