'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

My pure love is playing music.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.