Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

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

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

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.