Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.