Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
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.
Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
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.
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.