I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.