I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
“Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.”
“Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.”