I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.
I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.
People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.
I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'
My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.
A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.
Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.
I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.
Our interests are not the same as yours [the United States] because we are here and you are on the other side of the Atlantic.
Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!
I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.
I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?
I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.
We have a good relationship, but she is completely different than me. My sister, she is not sporty at all.
It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
It's quite difficult to figure out a common thread among us all as we're five very different people who love different types of music.
You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like 'Clueless.'
