I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There’s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it’s called college.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.