I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.