I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better tha….

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated..

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea o….

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un….

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway wi….

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness..

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for ev….

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing u….

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it..

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but….

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, w….

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot..

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it..

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired….

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs..

It's a holy city for music..

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowled….

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fanta….

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor..

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a singl….