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

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

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

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

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

I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

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.