Optimism Is A Revolutionary Act

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 And To Somehow Give It A Home.

Toronto -- When Cameron Crowe Was Flying To The Toronto Film Festival Recently, He Walked Down The Aisle Of The Plane And Studied His Fellow Passengers Sitting In Front Of Their Personal Tv Sets. They Were Just Having The Greatest Time, There Was So Much Joy In Their Eyes, .. And I Looked To See What They Were Watching. And It Was All Out-and-out Comedies. So Many People Watching The Longest Yard. And I Just Got The Feeling That, 'you Know What? People Just Like To Let It All Go, And Have A Laugh'.

If You Try To Write Something That's Memorable, You'll Never Get It. Sometimes It's The Way The Actor Says The Words That Make It Memorable.

There's Several Ways To Be A Journalist. One Way Is To Be Combative And Take The Person To Task And What You Have Is A Portrait Of Somebody Defending Themselves, Which Is Interesting. The Other Thing Is To Slip Into Their World And Really Be A Representative For All The People That Love The Experience Of That Artist, And Have Them Get So Comfortable That You Become Invisible And They're Themselves.

I Wanted To Follow The Path Of Music And Feel That Power, And I Couldn't Turn Back.