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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.
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 role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.'
