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

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.

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

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.