All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.