I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.