Quotes About Nostalgia

Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.

I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.

There's something magical that happens to every three-year-old that hears 'Ring of Fire.' That's usually where it starts for most people. They immediately want to put on a black shirt, grab a guitar and sing 'Ring of Fire.'

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Chhichhore' is really close to all of our hearts. We had a great time while making the film.

My first love was Heath Ledger.

When I was a kid, my idea of heaven on a hot summer day was fresh cut-up watermelon, Breakstone's cottage cheese, and a sprinkle of salt.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because I find flaws in the writing, but more because I get so burnt out on a novel once I've finished writing, revising, editing and copy editing it that I genuinely never want to look at it again after it's gone to press.

Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?'

I have a picture with Obama in my house, and I freak out every time I see it. I'm like, 'What the heck? Did that even happen?' It's like a dream.

I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.

I loved growing up in Shaker Heights, and I really miss it.

My favorite Adele song is 'Hello.'

I put my old player helmet on sometimes.

I remember 'Battlestar Galactica' shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.

The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.