I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to 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.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Everyday should be Christmas. Christ first loved us, we ought to love one another.

Success is always the final outcome when one adopts the habit of embracing each day with a high level of enthusiasm and productivity.

The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.