Quotes About Memories

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

Every time I go to the Opry is a special moment.

I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.

That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.

Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.

When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

Like many women, my first lip color belonged to my mum. It was bright orange and very fashionable at the time.

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

My first memories of make-up aren't great! I remember having a bright orange face and a white neck, I didn't know how to use make-up.

I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.

I went to high school in Orange County.

I grew up in Orange County near Disneyland.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the '80s, and there would be a handwritten note.

If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I've loved my days at Oregon State.

There's a cabin in Oregon I go to, which belonged to my parents. It's never been winterized. It's not a place you want to be after the first of October or before the first of June. I go for about three weeks every summer.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.