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

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

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.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.