When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.