I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

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'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!