“Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Anothe...” — Tim Rice Quote

“Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Another Hall,' both from 'Evita.'”

“You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.”

“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 adored Boston, and I loved school there.”

“I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.”

“I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.”