I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the mi….

I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my ….

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

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that yo….

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..

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't..

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he re….

No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye..

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you..

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And yo….

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. Th….

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key inter….

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true..

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening..

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictu….

Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's ….

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater..

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but….

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..

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find so….

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference..