Quotes About Memories

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

I probably saw 'When Harry Met Sally' for the first time in college.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

I lived with Stu Hart and the rest of the Hart's. So, I could go to the Hart Dungeon any time I wanted.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.

I miss corner men dressed up in the white cardigans, with sometimes the white hat they may have on.

I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

I wore a Santa hat for a whole year in high school.

When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

I hated every minute of my schooldays.

I am dedicated to giving my kids the memory of happy parents. So I spend a lot of time with them. We really know each other. If they should decide later on that they hate me, at least they'll know who they're hating.

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

My favorite record, growing up, was 'Songs of the Haunted House,' a Disney record that was just wackiness. It's still one of my favorites, actually.

Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.