Thom Filicia

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.