I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.