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

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

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.

Curiouser and curiouser.

God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!

The sense of a soul and afterlife is an intuitive illusion.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

inspect what you expect

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.