“My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.”

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It’s such an expressive form of popular music, it’s so real, it’s got so much life: it’s the most vital music in the world.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I’m drawn between the light and dark.

Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.

There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

I’m a thinker not a talker.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

My life is too crazy, no actor could play me.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.’

I’m not Blockbuster Boy.

Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting than being one.

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.