If you want to buy a house in San Diego, you shell out $1.5million. Here, it would be $450,000.

Wherever you are in the house has a view. That could be adapted in California.

We don't buy lots, but we work in conjunction with developers.

There are too many things being legislated that should be left up to the DOE.

I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists - you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they're 70.

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.