My instinct is to be very controlling.

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.

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

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

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.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.