Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm old enough to remember the days when you actually missed your favourite programme. Missed it. And cried. Possibly because you were a child, but not always.

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

I didn't actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them 'socials,' which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I'd never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.

Getting sacks are like prom night. It never gets old.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.

As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.

I knew 'Promises,' and I knew 'Never Fall In Love Again,' only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that 'House is Not a Home' and 'Say A Little Prayer.'

One of the promises we made to each other was that Wham! would never be resurrected because it was about being young.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Nothing gets a party started like some 110 per cent proof Ouzo from Kavos circa 2002.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father's years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it.

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.