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.

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: 'This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over.' If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: 'So what, there's more coming.'

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

I do enjoy Singapore very much.

Tim Rice

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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.

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice

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

Tim Rice