Quotes from Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

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

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

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

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

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.