I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.