Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.