“I’m attracted to stories about problems created by adults that children have to deal with…problems not of their own making. Children didn’t create war. You don’t go into foster care because of something you did, it’s because of...
“We want our lives to be boring. We want the art to be exciting. And you get that by finding the beginning and the middle of the end is just sight and sound. How about make every single sight and every single sound palpably, measurably move the story...
“Carmine Appice has played with Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, so many bands. So studying with Carmine, it just changed my drumming life. But he taught me some valuable lessons that were so important to me. One was, if you’re playing because you want to get...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
“Don’t tell me you want to be a writer….Just sit down and start writing….but if you’re going to write, you have to want to write. You can’t think that I’m going to be writing the great American novel. I’m going to write...
