I pulled a chair away from a girl who was just about to sit down on our second day of primary school. She farted when she hit the floor and everyone laughed.

The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.

To my teachers, for not paying attention.

My first wife, because I left her.

I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.

When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.

In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.

Fame. The upside is not worth the downside – you can’t turn fame on and off, and have privacy.

I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.

I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..