When I paint, I listen to music all the time. Right now, I have Classic Hits 2UE playing in the background. It helps block everything out, and you forget it’s there after a while.

Peter Berner. Photo supplied

My musical tastes are somewhat stunted, and I invariably listen to Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Allman Brothers, David Bowie, Hothouse Flowers, Dire Straits, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb . . . pretty much anything prior to 2000, or probably even 1990.

I don’t listen to Kanye, and I wouldn’t know a Taylor Swift song if I fell over it. I honestly don’t know if I’m letting myself down by not tuning into the best of rap.

My first album, I think, was Scorcher 76. It was one of those compilation albums that was very popular in the Seventies, and I’ve been welded to that music ever since.

Growing up, I listened to the songs my mother would sing. Being a young woman in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, and an actress in her own right, I don’t think she’d have bashed out Nessun Dorma....