I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.

When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

The world is changing, and you have to keep up with the way the world is changing as well as your own expectations that you set for yourself or that your family might set you.

I learn from my family. And it's not like I learn from them on the sets only.

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.