I Think Scotland Has Some Great Stories.

Life In La Is Not Lying In The Sun For Months. It Is Having A 4pm Meeting And Leaving At Noon To Sit In Traffic For Four Hours. Its Not Glam.

To Play One Of The Main Characters In It, It's Not The Kind Of Thing You Don't Do. Oh, I'd Rather Not Play Pippin In Lord Of The Rings... In Fact, I'm Trying To Think - What Else Would You Rather Do, You Know? I Can't Actually Think Of Another Job That I'd Rather Do.

I Like People Like Ani Difranco, A Band Called Elbow, Of Course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I Have A Lot Of Different Influences And Hopefully They All Come Together And Make Some Sense.

I Loved Going Surfing Down On Venice Beach. Id Go Out With A Board Under My Arm And Think, I Cant Do That In Cranhill.

A Lot Of Ideas Took Us To Dead Ends Or We Found The Tone Wasn’t Just Right. I Think We Discovered Very Quickly This Wasn’t Just A Song To End The Battle Of The Five Armies — It Was A Song To Say Goodbye To Middle-earth.