Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

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.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.