What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse brigade.'
I send a text every day to my partner Cath, saying 'I love you.'
I don't have hobbies. Other than watching telly and walking my dogs, what I do is work. That's who I am.
Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.
I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.
I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.
I've got soft features, curly hair with blonde bits and dimples. People think of me as a singer, an entertainer, someone who's always there with a ready smile.
Well, I try not to let people down in the work that I do or in how I conduct myself.
No-one has ever sung quite so beautifully as Karen Carpenter.
For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.
You can't get down and dirty at the opera.
I'm not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at the holiday.
You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.
I understand the power of music, I understand the therapeutic nature of music, the sense of community that music engenders, so I totally understand why it still goes on, choirs come together as a focal point for a community.
We're so stuck in our heads with social media that we don't get to meet people and go out to have a joint experience unless we go to a live event, like the theatre.
The first time I encountered Stephen Sondheim was like everyone else: through snatches of old songs people performed in drama school, through 'Send in the Clowns,' which everyone knew. I wasn't aware at the time that he was the writing force behind 'West Side Story' and 'Gypsy.'
Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it's got a fantastic score. It's not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script.
This was a seminal moment in my life - my dad took me to see the original production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at the Palace Theatre in 1973. I thought it was just amazing, so powerful. The idea of using rock music to tell the story of Jesus was incredible.
You can generate a phenomenal relationship with an audience. It's very gratifying, a real privilege.
When I was playing Marius in the inaugural production of 'Les Mis,' I contracted glandular fever which developed into a post-viral depression. I was 23 and I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel.
