The Privileged Life of a Theoretical Observer.

This is a summary of my scientific career, biased by my personal view of events and unashamedly concentrating on those aspects of some of the scientific developments to which I have contributed. A selective unbiased alternative has been written by Christensen-Dalsgaard and Thompson (A selective overview. In: Thompson, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (Eds.) Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 19, 2003), followed by some further remarks by Christensen-Dalsgaard (Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics: A Conference in Honour of Douglas Gough, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 948, xii, 2007).