Quotes About Memories

I'm grateful for all the teams that I've played for, the fans, the organizations, the front offices, the list goes on and on.

I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.

The original 'Tum Bin' was one of my favourite films whether you talk about the film or the music.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.

My maternal grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, wasn't much of a cook. As a kid I remember her making only a handful of things, mostly dishes with Ashkenazi Jewish origins like kasha and bowties (which, for the record, only my dad liked).

Orlando is my history.

My experience in Orlando was a good one. I made some good friends.

I grew up in Orlando.

Never will I ever have any bad feelings toward Orlando; it will always be positive.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.

I had a lot of Pokemon Pikachu t-shirts on court and hand-me-downs from other kids.

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.