"This time last year I was doing Passion. And it was the time of the European Championships and it was the big match England versus Germany. We were having to do a show. There´re about 12 people in the audience. Everybody´s at home watching the thing and at the beginning of the show there is this bonking scene, quite saucy scene ... And we´ve got people sneaking in with cameras and stuff like this. This time we´re out there and we´re doing the business on the bed and I looked out. You can just sort of see the audience and I saw this red light. Here we go someone´s videoing it. ... I´m the only one who has that video! Well I think it is no. 3 in the Danish porn charts. But ... so I send the stage manager out to go and get it and he came back and ??: We can´t find them. I said: Well they are six rows back, green shirt, they´re there, I can see the red light! He went out and came back killing himself laughing, said: Well, it´s not a video. There´s this little old lady with her radio listening to the match and whispering the score down... And we came to the end of the show. It´s a very serious, heavy show and she, this rather ugly woman said to me: You do love me, don´t you? And I go: Yes, I do. I love you! And as i said this Southgate missed the penalty and she was: (shouting) Oh, bollocks! ". True story, absolutely true story. That didn´t make it easier. You think you really caught them!"

.... recording concerts

"I´ve never filmed any of the shows ´cause I never thought you could quite capture the atmosphere. The spontaneous thing you can´t reproduce that on video. Until I did the Les Mis Tenth Anniversary Concert last year and they filmed that. It was the most amazing evening. The atmosphere was extraordinary and I thought: How are they gonna make that work on video? And I watched it and they managed to capture the feeling. So I decided to do the same."

... musical acting

"I think it´s the toughest gig in showbiz. It´s eight shows a week. It´s singing, it´s physically really, really taking. The audience ... if you get a good musical, they just lov´em."

... Aspects of Love

"The longest what I´ve done is Aspects of Love which is a year here and a year on Broadway and I found it really hard. And that isn´t a particularly long time. A lot of people still stay in shows for seven/eight years. (Question: What are the symptoms of this disease?)

Completely losing yourself. Forgetting what you´re doing. It has happened to me on stage. You´re there, vou´ve done it nine months, the nerves have gone, you sort of know what I'm gona do and a Wednesday matinee you come out and for some reason you might thinking about where I´m gonna be having dinner tonight. And then you think: I´ve done it so many times, but I have no clue what I´m gonan sing next. It´s terrifying and it´s true. It happened twice to me with Love changes everything. Once on stage. I opened the show and came out singing: Love changes everything, hands and faces, earth and sky. It was gone. I sang the same line continuing: Hands and faces, earth and sky. And there was a little old lady in the front row, who has seen it lots of times, mouthing the words to me and so I got it. The worst one: We did Andrew Lloyd Webber´s "This is your life" and everybody is there. You know. And I came on, I was the last guest to come on and sing Love changes to Madeleine and Andrew and I invented the song. Don Black was in there and completely rewrote his lyrics. Any nice thoughts I could think of: Clouds and lovely feelings, nice, that´s what the love means. Just rubbish and they can´t retake it!"

... worst thing happening on stage

"Loads. Well, the VE-thing. We were doing the rehearsal for it and the park was quite full and as I am singing Anthem, the Royal Artillery was doing something over to the edge and I had just finished the song, and hit the last note and they did the 21-gun-salute. So I finished "Heeeaaaartt" and BANG!!! This huge . everybody ducked for the floor, I was lying flat: "I wasn´t that bad, was I?". I´m always forgetting lines on stage. When we opened Aspects, we open with "Love changes everything". I´ve sung it, God knows how many times, and I came out and went:

Love, love changes everything, hands and faces, earth and sky
Love, love changes everything, hands and faces, GONE earth and sky
Love, love changes everything, hands and faces.

Panic this time. There was a lovely little old lady sitting in the front row, with all her shopping bags around her, it was a matinee and she was going (imitating the lady) mouthing: How you live and how you die. She mouthed all the words up to me and I got it back. Can we have her everyday?"

... First Love

"When Angela (Cathy´s sister-in-law) died, we all got a rosebush. One was on her grave and each member of the family has one in the garden and the name of the rose was "First Love", which is the name of my album. It was just a symbol really for Angela. So all the money that we made from the single (The Rose) is going to ROC , Research into Ovarian Cancer."

... melody of "Sunset Boulevard"

"I probably get sued for it, but I don´t care. He (Andrew Lloyd Webber) was writing Sunset Boulevard and he was doing it down at his house in the country. Put on a show on that place, big manor. I don´t read music and I don´t do it, but I have to learn by ear and so the guy is sitting down and playing the beginning of Sunset Boulevard to me which is going: (singing) Sure I came out here, to make my name, wanted my pool my dose of fame, wanted my parking-space at Warners. He playing it: dadadadada (singing the melody). They said: Do you like it? And I said: Well I always have! (Again singing) She may be the beauty or the beast ... But there are only eight notes. ... I am gonna be killed for that!"

... vocal chords

"If you´re performing them every week and sing them in the studio, it´s like every muscle in the body: the more you practice the stronger it gets."

... choosing songs for the Musicals album

"It was the hardest thing I´ve done. You´re choosing, there are hundreds of songs I could have. I kind of stuck to musicals that I´d either been in or have been associated with or that have been fairly current and also people I´ve worked with like Andrew Lloyd Webber or Claude-Michel Schönberg and Steve Sondheim. And there are plenty of others that I still want to record and I hopefully will."

... VE day celebrations (he sung Jean Valjean's part in "One day more" and Anthem in front of 350,000 people)

"It was actually the most extraordinary evening I think I´ve ever had. We were in the compound, the celebs, all in the back stage area, for the two minute silence. I came out and went into the middle of the crowd, to just stand there. The atmosphere was extraordinary. There wasn´t a sound. Everyone believed in it. I was committed to it. We then did the show. I had the honor of closing it, finishing it, and all that. It was just the best moment I think I´ve had on stage."

... starting to sing

"I always used to sing along to records and the radio, and everyone used to tell me to shut up. It´s amazing to think people now actually pay to listen to me!"

... quitting Musical Theatre after Les Mis

"... while I was in Les Misérables I became ill with glendular fever, which progressed into what became known as ME, and I had to pull out of the show for five months. When I tried to get back in afterwards I suffered panic attacks on stage and even on my way to work. I even told the producer, Cameron Mackintosh, that I´d give up the business - which I did for nine months."

... Eurovision Song Contest

"I´d rather stick needles in my eyes ... I love watching it, but don´t enjoy being judged with a television up my eyes."

"It was great fun doing the "Song for Europe", choosing the song, and actually doing the show and meeting all the other people from a different country. It was a riot. Performing was fine. When I came off and went backstage and there are all these tables and there the cameras up your nose and you got null points from Cyprus and Turkey. And I go: What the hell have I done this for?"

"Now I was due in the Eurovision Song Contest. I did it once. I managed to join the list of the Great and became 2nd and like to say thank you to Cyprus, thank you to Portugal, everyone else who gave us null points. Anyway let´s strike it out and remember .... One step out of time (then singing the whole song)"

... his TV Series

"I wasn´t too keen to do more in case I came to be regarded as a light entertainment host, rather than a singer ... I don´t think I was very good ... I didn´t make the most of the guests who came on."

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