If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
There's no way I could ever be "democratically" elected... but since we're imagining things... if I were dictator, I would take 90% of all the billionaires' money and hire the poor people to build a massive effigy in my honour, one that's big enough that you could see it from space. Now that's what I call fair redistribution of wealth.
What/who changed my life and why
Brian Eno for his music. Terrance Malick and Terry Gilliam for their movies... too many more to mention.
"It is my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but do not complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away."
--Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
(A Consolation of Philosophy)