Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.