I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.