"I could have chosen an Oasis record, but if I'm really honest I think this record and the one before are his best work. I don't want to piss on anyone's parade but I think the songs here are fucking great. It's very clever to be able to write something anthemic. It's not easy and he just seems to roll them out. But I think there's a depth and a maturity to his playing and his songs which comes from age and experience. Obviously I'm biased as he's my mate but I'm impressed by the writing more than anything else. He's hit a great seam and he's up and running and that's great to see. I suppose it's that thing where you don't have to pretend to be democratic anymore, you just please yourself. You don't have to appease the singer or the bass player or whoever it may be. You're free to do whatever you want to do. I'm glad that he's done it."

"I'd agree that they were ahead of their time, they were quite minimalist really. Minimal electronic music. When I heard the b-side of 'Electricity', which was a track called 'Almost', that was like hearing Simon & Garfunkel, only in an electronic world. The songs were really simple, there was heaps of emotion in that particular track. It was a record that everybody had in my group, and we all played it at parties and danced to it. I say 'dance', I am not Saturday Night Fever, I'm working on it. I'm trying to break the moonwalk at the moment. 'Electricity', I didn't know what it was about, it just sounded really really exciting. They were a prog rock band in the old days apparently. I was telling the keyboard player about my admiration for 'Almost' and he said, "Yeah that was one of our old prog rock songs, there were seven people in the band"."

"Then the films that made me want to become an actor were films that were recommended by my father when I was 16, and I got my first VHS player, and they were very often these French films, Italian films in the ’60s and ’70s, and one of the films that impressed me the most was Rocco and His Brothers. Neo-realism — Rocco and His Brothers with Alain Delon, which is great because it’s told in different chapters. I think five chapters. Telling the story of each of these brothers, of this poor southern Italian family coming to Milan trying to begin a new life, and the authenticity of that neo-realistic Italian filmmaking, is very impressive. Also the drama, the way it is told, and big family issues of rivalry and jealousy and love and hatred are told in a magnificent and very moving way, and with a wonderful young Alain Delon playing Rocco."