I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn't like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.