It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.