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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.