Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

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.

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.