I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

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.