Optimism is a revolutionary act

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

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.

You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.

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.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.