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I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.