No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Success is a result not an action.

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.