Andrew Lloyd Webber

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

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.

Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a lot of projects offered to me. It's extraordinary. Normally, I've initiated them all myself.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

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.

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

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