The idea of a SOCIAL hub/website and official FACEBOOK PAGE just felt right as I want to be available for those who want to connect with me and SHARE their feedback, suggestions, love and SUPPORT.

If my PARENTS don't like something, they tell me on my FACE. You get REAL feedback from them.

Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While TELEVISION offers IMMENSE reach and long-running shows, FILMS are shorter and they are presented differently. With THEATRE, it's the thrill of instant feedback.

With the millions of listeners to 'COAST to Coast AM,' I get constant feedback from PEOPLE who are not happy with the current candidates. MAYBE I will RUN for PRESIDENT in 2012.

It's all very well making RECORDS, but the joy of performing is that you GET to MEET PEOPLE who GIVE you instant feedback.

Too OFTEN we're happy to receive THANKS from the nonprofits we fund, ACCEPTING gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

My PARENTS have provided guidance, OBJECTIVE FEEDBACK, and unconditional SUPPORT. They are advocates of what I do.

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not GOING to vote for OBAMA is not necessarily true. I believe a THIRD would vote for me, BASED on my own anecdotal FEEDBACK. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

I'm vulnerable to CRITICISM. Any ARTIST is, because you WORK alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only WAY you'd get any feedback.

I love cities, and I love CITY GOVERNMENTS in PARTICULAR. But in politics it would have TAKEN me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a FAR more efficient way to test.

During my TIME growing a COMPANY in the private sector, one of my guiding PRINCIPLES was to meet and hear FEEDBACK from as many customers as POSSIBLE.

In the END, I do have a GROUP of FRIENDS and teachers whose opinions I RESPECT, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

I'm not SOMEBODY who GOES online after EVERY episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too MUCH feedback and too much INFORMATION.

Big IDEAS developed in a VACUUM are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and GROWING a successful COMPANY.