Alfie Boe: everything changed for me after Les Misérables On a Saturday night Sarah and I will be out with friends again, or possibly having a movie night at home. I don't catch much telly as a rule but I love to hunker down and watch a good film. Sunday usually starts slowly and once we've got ourselves together I like to do my usual big lunch. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to this. As a boy in Lancashire, Sundays were always the same and the whole day revolved around a roast, so I try to keep that up. I wouldn't say I'm brilliant at cooking but I do enjoy it, which is the main thing. I've stopped drinking quite recently - I have decided I am done with drink now - and am focusing on being healthy, but on Sundays I will go all out on the meat and vegetables and a proper dessert. I probably need to do a little more exercise than I'm doing at the minute. Alfie Boe and his American wife, Sarah [PHOTO: DAN WOOLLER/REX] I always make the most of times like these at home with my family because my working life has, for the past few years, been busier than ever. Since that Les Mis performance, things have turned around quite dramatically for me [he was offered a four-album record deal] and that's been incredible. The craziness happens now in fits and starts, but it gets particularly busy when I'm releasing an album and going on tour, as I'm just about to do. I'll be playing at lots of huge venues around the UK but to me a stage is a stage and I honestly feel as much pressure performing in front of 20 people as 20,000. I always get nervous. I think that's important: it gives me the enthusiasm and the adrenalin rush to do my job well. Thankfully, because it's my show I can just stop and admit it if anything does go wrong and the audience are always very forgiving if I forget my words. I've been preparing for this tour for the past 12 months, and it's going to be completely different to my last one. I want the feeling to be very theatrical and romantic, just like the songs on my album, so the set will be spectacularly atmospheric. I hope people will leave the show thinking they've been to another time, another world, and feeling happy and loving. I won't see my children much during the coming weeks but my wife will travel around with me as much as she can and I hope I'll see my wider family (I'm the youngest of nine siblings), who mostly still live up in Lancashire. I don't get back there as often as I'd like, but some of them will come to see my shows and I hope they'll enjoy them. Wherever I am in the world, I still get the same feeling on Sunday nights that I had as a child. It was always the not-so-perfect point in a weekend for me because I knew I had to have a bath and go to bed and there was school in the morning. Now, even when I know I've got Monday off, I still feel a bit weird as we make sure the children's uniforms are ready and get them into bed. I don't think that will ever change. Herbal tea or stiff drink? Herbal tea. Plan B career? I'd love to be James Bond. Favourite place in the world? Wherever my children and my wife are. Best advice you've ever received? Whenever you have time off, rehearse and perfect your art. Worst habit? Picking my nose. Dream dinner date? Every rock icon out there. Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury - all the guys that have unfortunately passed away. It would be nice to sit down around a table with those fellas. Favourite item of clothing? My boots - I have a huge collection of different ones. My motorbike, a Harley My drum kit My wife My daughter Grace My son Alfie Serenata is out on Monday on Decca. UK Arena Tour starts November 29; gigsandtours.com