“To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.”

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there’s beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you’re in love.

It’s spiritual – a good feeling. And although you don’t know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

Get outta my dreams Get into my car.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Just ’cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s not a fire inside.

Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred – I mean hatred for wealthy people – that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no ‘velvet’ solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven’t seen anyone – and I mean anyone – play before.

Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.