I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.