"No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future."

"I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about."

"I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness."

"My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person."

"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character."

"With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that."

"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."

"I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher."