Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.