My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.
I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
