I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

I hate the word 'hippy.'

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.