You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.