The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with them later on in the year. We just kind of nursed the piece along. There was no timeframe. We didn't have anyone pushing us except ourselves to make the film, and a desire. And then the organic kind of naming of Roger; then it happened really fast.

It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.