Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.