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.

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

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

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

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

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.