If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want.

I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.