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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

When I've pictured what Heaven would be like, I've always imagined myself free to explore the outer reaches of space.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

I've been traveling around the world forever.