I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.