I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.