I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.