Quotes About Memories

I don't watch my Rio races back. I'll look at my London 2012 races a lot. But not Rio.

The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't Worry Baby.' There's something really sad about 'Don't Worry Baby.' Even though it's just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There's melancholy in it.

I like getting together with friends and just making fun of ourselves and stupid things I've done or I've seen them do - and good races we've had together. When I go home to California, I always talk to my go-kart friends about when we were racing at Red Bluff or Cycleland.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

I started racing when I was 14 and remember guys like Denis Dunne and Martin Hanrahan dropping me by 10 minutes.

It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

My dad always said, 'There's only a few great ones,' and Prince was definitely one of the greats. Then 'Purple Rain' took on new meaning when I had broken up with my ex and I did a show in his hometown and sang it. It was just a really crazy moment, and that's always a memory when I'm singing it as well.

Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don't miss the rain.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

I wish I'd seen Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Rainbow in 1977.