In 1979 I came home from a screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, totally overwhelmed with the concept of connection, and wrote a song called Exile: We are in exile in the universe And we’ve been sentenced to serve ten thousand years Let the Courts of the Infinity Be the judges of our destiny As we struggle with our prejudice and fears… From that moment on, I looked at our connection with other intelligent lifeforms not just as a possibility but as a puzzle as to wh