Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

I've never had a very great public life.

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

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

What musicals need is a new me.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

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.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.

The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.