It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.