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 used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I want to be a part of great things.

I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).