Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure. . . I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure.
I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.
When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.
It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?
I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin. ” -In the yellow time of pollen
I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.