Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

If you have a green light from your spouse and kids, life is going to be much easier.

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.