I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.