Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.