Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.