My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.