Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.