28 Quotes by Tom Kitt

There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way for that to happen is for new audiences to discover it.

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or next door to them, or they know people who have experienced it.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.

I was very lucky in that I had a happy home life and that I was interested in things my parents wanted to provide for me.

Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.

'Next to Normal' was a show many people thought couldn't be done.