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

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

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.

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

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.

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

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