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 you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

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.

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

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.

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