I felt I was owned by possessions.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

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.