If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

I never enjoyed being famous.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.