Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.