I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Without friends you have nothing!

People don’t really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I’m lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty.”—Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls

The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

Freedom is a system based on courage.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

I listen to the voices.