“I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk ...” — Stephen Mangan Quote

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

It's hard for me not to play on the West Coast. I love it out there.

There are times when I go around England and I'm horrified by the pebble-dash houses with plastic windows against the coast.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

Everybody says, 'Oh, those East Coast people are so ruthless' and what not. But I love them. I mean, they're honest. What more can you ask from people?