“The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.”

“I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.”

“I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.”

“The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.”