I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.