Quotes About Nostalgia

I used to love playing paper dolls with my mother - she would cut them out and I would dress the dolls.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

I grew up at a time when West Indies dominated the world. For 15 years from 1980, the West Indies never lost a Test series.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Radio was always a doorway to something for me growing up.

I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

I love period dramas.

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

I'm really living out the stuff that 10-year-old me dreamed of.

I'd love to fight in Japan. I always dreamed about this when I was a kid and started watching PRIDE, so I would love to fight there.