Quotes About Memories

I had one-and-a-half years of joy in Manchester, despite the city being a lot colder than Madrid!

That love for sports comes from my dad but despite all my naughtiness, I was one of the teachers' favourites.

I grew up in a family where we had dessert for breakfast.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can come and see the person. And her coffin was next to my room, so I used to go in and stand on a chair and look at her. You know, it's open coffin and stuff.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.

I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.