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

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Only capitalists get photographers.

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.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

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