In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.

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.

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.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

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

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