I don’t think I have ever met a single person who isn’t moved by music of some kind.

I’m very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I don’t just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don’t normally get too close to.

I’m engaging my diaphragm as I’m speaking to you right now.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

The community that underpinned my upbringing was born from the pits and the steelworks and the railways.

But you mustn't get seduced by the kind of fame that comes with media attention.