I want to be a part of great things.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.