Quotes from Tim Rice

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

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

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.

I do enjoy Singapore very much.

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

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 love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

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

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

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. Now you have people tweeting and blogging immediately, so you may as well regard your first preview as your opening night because you are going to get reviews.

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.

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

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

Don't cry for me, Argentina.

Don't you think about tomorrow, think about today instead.

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

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

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.

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.