People Dance And We Have A Lot

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 The Stuff That's Thrown In Their Path ... And Somehow Keep Their Heart.

I Remember That, Before John Lennon Died, Everyone Was Saying That Rolling Stone Couldn't Do Good Reporting Anymore. But When He Died, They Wrote This Amazing Issue, As They Should Have About Lennon. They Did That When Elvis Died, Too.

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.

I Used To See A Lot Of Cocaine. There Were Journalists Who Used Cocaine And Didn't Write About It And I Didn't Write About It. I Would Never Do Drugs, So I Would Always Get The Same Response From People: "smart Kid, More For Me." Whether It Was A Joke Or Sincere Or Both, But I Was Just Happy Not To Be In There Partying With The Band Like Some Of These Other Journalists.

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.