Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.

I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.