Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.