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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.