I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

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.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.