I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

Life is a dance between what keeps us going and what is holding us back

Many couples spend a great deal of time planning their wedding, but little time planning their marriage.

I live in the realm of love and light.

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist

You can be special without being extraordinary.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.