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" Although I've got lots of pals in showbiz, I haven't got that many close friends. "

" And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say. "

" Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other. "

" 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 always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number. "

" 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. "

" I do enjoy Singapore very much. "

" 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. "

" I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me. "

" I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that. "

" I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail. "

" I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. "

" I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics. "

" I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song. "

" I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. "

" I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not. "

" I love watching 'Pointless.' "

" I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed. "

" In the Bible, there is absolutely no motivation for Judas, other than that he is sort of a 100 percent figure of evil. And it seemed to me that that was probably not the case. "

" In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before. "

" 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 think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes. "

" I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you're in the right job or the wrong one. "

" It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about. "

" I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in. "

" I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty. "

" I would like to write a play. "

" 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. "

" Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out. "

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