When I sit on the beach early, and the sun is starting to warm, I am actually looking through the French windows of my Malibu beach house, wondering if Gaga is coming to lunch.

That’s the magic of an oceanview. You could be anywhere (more or less) and there’s little to intrude on your dreams.

The sea is a legendary solver of problems. Its deep calm, its relentless rhythm works away at ideas and liberates those that are waiting below the surface.