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We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

I love being Italian.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.