It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

I don't miss EastEnders. I did a two-stretch. That was enough.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.