For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.