Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

People who go out and do hits year after year after year, I think the fans deserve more than that. The audiences deserve more than just that. You need to give them something new, or things you really love to sing. And they love it.

When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.