Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.