What musicals need is a new me.

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.

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.

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

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

The proud hate pride in others.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.