You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.

There's always a connection to be made whether you're playing a psychopath or whatever. It doesn't really matter; you've got to find this thing that you relate to with each character otherwise you're missing something.

When I was younger, I never had that fascination.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.