With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.