Quotes About Nostalgia

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

Like many women, my first lip color belonged to my mum. It was bright orange and very fashionable at the time.

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.

The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.

I grew up in Orange County near Disneyland.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the '80s, and there would be a handwritten note.

If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.

I've loved my days at Oregon State.

There's a cabin in Oregon I go to, which belonged to my parents. It's never been winterized. It's not a place you want to be after the first of October or before the first of June. I go for about three weeks every summer.

I think that 'Psychopomp' is very much a Eugene, Oregon record.

Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.

Not being part of the BBC with 'Top Gear' any more does pain me, because it's an organisation I approve of.

I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

I'm from a town in Ohio called Orient.

I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.