I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.

Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.

I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.