Quotes from Andrew Lloyd Webber

Mobiles mean people know where you are.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

It never occurred to me that 'Phantom of the Opera' was the sort of subject that I'd want to do, because I just thought it was something that would be a bit jokey. 'Til I read the book.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

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

I often think how lucky we were with 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

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

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

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.

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

The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

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

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.