I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.