Quotes About Nostalgia

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

I come from the '90s where there was rap-rock and I was never a huge fan of it. I loved Rage, I loved some of the other stuff that was going on, but it got really oversaturated and it got kind of cheesy at some point - we can all say that.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don't miss the rain.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

I wish I'd seen Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Rainbow in 1977.

Yeah, I was only in New York from the age of six months until five years old. But my very first memories are all of New York. I remember my first rainbow on a beach in New York. I remember jumping on a bed in New York.

When I was seven, I sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.