The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.