Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.