I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.