You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.