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 interviews and that would be it.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

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.

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

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

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

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.