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I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.
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My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.
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I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.
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I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them.
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My dad was working class.
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I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.
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I'm not a funny person.
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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
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I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.
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Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it.
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I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.
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There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three.
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I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as 'Seinfeld,' but that kind of thing. I love that stuff.
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Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.
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Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.
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The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play.
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I'm a huge David Hockney fan.
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I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.
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We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.
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The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.
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I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'
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I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do it.'
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It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
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I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.
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My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.
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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.
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I'm not that politically educated.
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Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.
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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
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