Quotes About Memories

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still.

Growing up, we had folk records.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I was in middle school when Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989. I still remember the sounds from that night and the challenges of recovering.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

You can't recreate the '60s.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

I can never recreate the magic that 'Indian' did in the '90s.

My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some ways, I imagine I'm returning the favour.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

I did any of the normal things any redneck kid did.

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

I reference playgrounds a lot because I was always playing on them when I was little.