I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.