I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

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?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

You’re crazy, ” he hisses. “Too true.

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.