Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.