We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.

I'm sort of like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.

Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting – and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.

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

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.