I`m not a practicing Catholic or I wouldn`t be living unwed with a woman, and I don`t think all poofs are going to hell, and I don`t think everyone who`s had an abortion is damned, most of my friends are atheists and I understand atheism, I get it, but I happen to be a theist. I believe in our answerableness to something else.

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone`s equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.

Once you`ve switched that switch [commitment], then, though you notice that other people are great, you`re just not interested.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I`m concerned.

God, no. I don`t do any of that shit [partying with celebrities]. I`ve got a stag weekend coming up and I`ve said I`m not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won`t have it. I`ll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

Some people have that roar in their head, but I`m not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin - it`s not good. I want to live with Amanda till I`m 70. I was never the kid that went all the way with naughtiness, never got caned or in serious trouble. I always knew when to pull back.

I don`t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. My parents gave me the knowledge that reading isn`t a bad thing, and admitting to liking a painting doesn`t make you an arse-bandit. And that wouldn`t have been a problem either.

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I`d like that. I`ve never been to a festival. I`m a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa`s squishy. Maybe too squishy - it`s hard to get up sometimes.