"I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and I said, 'I just don't think life gets any better!' You have to take that moment and expand it for as long as possible because it's such a cool feeling."

"If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55."

"George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea."

"I'm a huge horror fan."

"I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked."

"The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'"

"A steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."