I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

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.

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.

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

Kind deed is a seed of love.

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

Good is the enemy of great.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.