It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

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

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.