You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment providers and creates less competition for services.

Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.