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We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.