When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.