I’m going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don’t, I’ve written 14 musicals now, I don’t want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

In this remark, Lloyd Webber frames creative productivity as something that must be earned by the right material rather than forced by schedule or expectation. By contrasting a family holiday plan with the tally of “14 musicals,” he signals both a desire for personal balance and a refusal to treat composition as mere output. The emphasis on not “rush[ing] into doing something just for the sake of doing it” suggests an artist wary of repetition and reputational dilution; the next work should be justified by a compelling narrative. The quote thus presents story as the engine of musical theatre—music and spectacle follow, but only once a subject worthy of dramatization appears.