I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.