“It’s a passion for the universe!” That’s how Andrea Ghez succinctly sums-up her motivation for becoming an astrophysicist in this conversation recorded with Adam Smith shortly after she heard the news of her Nobel Prize in a 2am call from Stockholm. As only the fourth female Nobel Laureate in Physics, she describes the Prize as “An opportunity and a responsibility.” Celebrating diversity in science, Ghez reflects that “Seeing people who look like you, or are different from you, succeeding shows you that there’s an opportunity.” And regarding the ‘other’ team of her co-laureate Reinhard Genzel, she concludes, “There’s nothing like competition to keep you going!”