Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.