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"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"
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"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."

"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."

"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."

"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."

"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."
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"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."

"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted."

"I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there."
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