An Elizabeth Peyton painting.

My husband and I own some art, but we are not huge spenders.

In New York, I once went shopping and spent something like $7,000 on a couple of shirts, trousers and a jacket. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was ridiculous.

I spend most money on my garden.

Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.

Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.

The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.

As a complex and brilliant man.

An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.

Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.