Growing up in L.A., every kid wants to play for the Lakers. As a kid I went to their championship parades, bought a Kobe jersey - I went to the gym and made everybody call me Kobe - loved Shaq, loved the three-peat.

My style influences came from just growing up in L.A. and watching everything and the whole environment and just traveling.

For my style influences you've got to look at Kanye first. Pharrell when I was growing up, too.

Growing up in L.A., Kobe was my idol, really.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?