It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.