"Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive."

"For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it."

"While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home."

"My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent."

"I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility."

"My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith."

"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."