I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

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

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.