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.

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

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

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

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.