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 fut….

Time puts things in proper perspective..

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around..

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..

Optimism is a revolutionary act.

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

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..

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

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 ….

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it an….

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching..

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with th….

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in..

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 m….

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while..

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

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 li….

The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a….

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 success….

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