When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.