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

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.

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

her grass seemed greener until a drought cameand cracked the earth beneath you.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

Sleep is for those who are broke

When adults wage war, children perish.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

You can't hear me? Read my lips!