I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

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

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.