Andrew Lloyd Webber

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.