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So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

English people are always surprised I'm English.

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

People want to say something negative before they say something good.

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.