Driving A Motorcycle Is Like

People Assume That I'm Very Highly Trained, That I Studied And Did Years And Years Of Shakespeare. I Have No Training Whatsoever And I've Only Done One Shakespeare Play At University. If People Want To Believe That, I'm Happy To Go Along With It.

[...] And As I Walked, I Tried To See The Funny Side. It Wasn't Easy, And I'm Still Not Sure That I Managed It Properly, But It's Just Something I Like To Do When Things Aren't Going Well. Because What Does It Mean, To Say That Things Aren't Going Well? Compared To What? You Can Say: Compared To How Things Were Going A Couple Of Hours Ago, Or A Couple Of Years Ago. But That's Not The Point. If Two Cars Are Speeding Towards A Brick Wall With No Brakes, And One Car Hits The Wall Moments Before The Other, You Can't Spend Those Moments Saying That The Second Car Is Much Better Off Than The First.

I Think Good-looking People Seldom Make Good Television. And American Television Studios Almost Concede Before They Start: 'well, It Won't Be Good, But At Least It'll Be Good-looking. We'll Have Nice-looking Girls In Tight Shirts With F.b.i. Badges And Fit-looking Guys With Lots Of Hair Gel Vaulting Over Things.'

I Have Been Instrumental In Banning Bottled Water On The Set. It Hasn't Gone That Well With The Crew... So I Replaced It With Tequila.

People Will Survive, And They Will Find Happiness. Happiness Only Comes When You're Not Looking For It.