"Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts."

"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father."

"Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time."

"But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic."

"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."

"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."