If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

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!

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

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