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

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 really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds.

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

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.

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.

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.

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.