I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.