Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.