Gotta watch out for directors.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

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.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.