The 52-year-old revealed that as a boy he harboured dreams of becoming a priest to impress his mum, but was talked out of it with no regrets.

"It's not a joke - actually there (are) loads of directors who as a side-off kind of flirted with the priesthood. Martin Scorsese, John Wood. My mom's a very devout Catholic from Ireland and she wanted me, her eldest son, to be a priest,” ‘Contactmusic’ quoted him as saying.

"There was this priest who said to me, ''I don't think you should do it. I think you should wait until girls and music and all those things come into your life.''

“And I don't know if he was trying to save me or the priesthood (but) I'm very grateful to him for it," he added.