I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.
If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the years, 'Let's not have any previews.' But no one agreed with me. If you could do that, however, it would be a great gimmick - no previews, just opening night.
Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Another Hall,' both from 'Evita.'
I love watching 'Pointless.'
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.
I would like to write a play.
I always wanted to swim the Channel, which is insane.
I am sure if you went back to the days of 'My Fair Lady,' they would have had one public dress rehearsal, and that is it. And in a way, I would like to go back to that. Now you have people tweeting and blogging immediately, so you may as well regard your first preview as your opening night because you are going to get reviews.
He's a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He's laid-back, charming, funny. There's no side to him.
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn't going to cure all the problems.
I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.
Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.
I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.
I would love to write a song with the Everly brothers. But it's probably best not to work with someone you admire: they'll just show up your inadequacies.
I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.
