I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

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

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.