The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

My default-setting Italian recipes that I always fall back on are the ones that we had as kids, like spaghetti vongole, which is tomato and clams with spaghetti.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.