England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.