Quotes About Nostalgia

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn't come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop... 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life.

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Playing at the highest level alongside your friends, scoring runs for your country are things that I look back and go, 'Ah, I miss that a little bit,' but there's a lot I don't miss. I don't miss 90 per cent of it.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

Madhuri did the moonwalk in 'Que Sera Sera' perfectly. We didn't think it would become so iconic.

I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

I love the Girls Aloud songs and get messages from fans asking to hear them performed live again.

I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music that was performed in those days.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

I'm so in love with Chanel's perfume bottles. I grew up seeing my mom use Chanel No. 5, so it's quite sentimental to me.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.