Damon: "It's so difficult not to get horribly sentimental, isn't it? At the moment the song I relate to most is (The Jam's) 'That's Entertainment'. It drags me into its epicentre."

Damon: "Being in an absolute balance between hedonism and simplicity. The two totally merging as one."

Damon: "No peace. The complete absence of peace and balance. I'm determined to have a good balance. I want to smoke, but at the same time, I want to be able to run as far as I want without breaking down. That applies to every single thing in my life."

Damon: "This set of monks walking across a meadow at about 6am down on the Astor estate where my parents used to rent a little cottage in the early '70s. They were just floating on this mist."

Damon: "That's like hell, isn't it? It's all related to that."

Damon: "No-one really encapsulates exactly what I consider a hero to be. There are moments when Elvis was doing his karate moves in Vegas and he was as big as a hero gets. As far as beauty is concerned, someone like Steve McQueen. He was the most beautiful person I've ever seen. The most melancholic would be Ray Davies."

Damon: "I haven't been in that much trouble. Emotionally I've been in fairly dire straits on occasion, but I've never broken the law that badly."

Damon: "The first person I realised I couldn't exist without was Justine, really. To that point there'd never been anything in my life, apart from my family, that it seemed impossible to conceive losing."

Damon: "I over perform when I'm really pushed up against a wall. I'm completely lazy until I feel that the things I hold dear are threatened, then I turn into Superman."

Damon: "You only exact revenge by being able to forgive and love everyone."

Damon: "My beads, definitely."

Damon: "Being promiscuous."

Damon: "I plan to do a lot of cooking next year. My best thing used to be a pepper and fish soup. I was good at pies and vegetable stews and things like that. Then 'Parklife' happened and I had to sacrifice my burgeoning culinary career for pop stardom."

Damon: "Phil Daniels always gives me good advice. And there was something Nixon said when he was giving his resignation speech, but I can't remember what it was. It was the best piece of advice ever, and I can't remember it!"

Damon: "Yeah."

Damon: "Like anyone, my head would think, 'Well, I'll go and check up on everyone in my life.' But I'd resist that temptation and I'd probably go and sit under a tree naked or something, knowing I wasn't going to get arrested."

Damon: "First, that the people I love were safe and happy. Second, I'd wish for more soul in my music. And third, I'd wish for all the blessings of all the spirits that are out there."