I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

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.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.