2030 or no songs

That's just my bottom line: those songs are for that story, despite the efforts of numerous theatre companies to steal them. As for recycling all the Irish arias into the Perfumed Garden: hell no. For me, the whole point is to write a new score. Write being the operative word... I love composing, but it's not a spectator sport for me (though other composers prefer to have an audience).

Stop telling me to recycle my Shipwrecked songs into Weeded Out. I said no, and my songs are protected by APRA AMCOS. I know they're worth money: I'm staking my claim for the Shipwrecked film on the quality of the songs and my newly restored reputation as a result of the Wellington Stories trilogy and the Dakumentary. Stop telling me I have a moral obligation to perform stage musicals. No, I don't: this isn't a singing voice that musicals teach, and my inheritance is composing musicals. In fact, I'm doing that right now, and you're just whinging that the story I chose is 'too much' and that everyone prefers Tina to Amanda or Bedel el Bedour.