I am very proud to be Italian.

There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.

There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.