Quotes About Memories

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

I can remember tasting cheese and onion crisps when they first came on the market - they were the most amazing thing ever.

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.

My first tattoo was on my right shoulder/tricep, it says 'The City of H-Town.'

People tattoo for different reasons. I use a tattoo as a marker of time, to be reminded of a time in my life. It is something special and personal.

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me.

Jardim Peri will be always marked in my life, and I'm always going to bring it with me. It will not only be on a tattoo on my body - but also in my heart.

I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.

It's my ex's name. Don't tattoo names on your body, kids.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

All my tattoos have been spur-of-the-moment ones and not planned.

Two friends and I decided to get tattoos of different animals. My one friend got a bulldog. My other friend got a bull, I think, and then I got a shark. Two years later, there was a cartoon called 'Street Sharks,' and by happenstance, it looked eerily reminiscent of my tattoo. Actually, it was identical.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I don't even know how many tattoos I got. I got three tattoos at my first session.

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.

I get a lot of tattoos for people in my family. Some of my friends I have tattoos for, some of my religious beliefs, things that represent me in different times of my life. They kind of tell a story. I like them.

I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.