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.

We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

Time puts things in proper perspective.

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 always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

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