For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.