My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

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.

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 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.

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

My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!