My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

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!

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.