Quotes About Nostalgia

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

My parents moved to the states when I was 6, so I was raised by my grandma in the Dominican Republic and didn't see them again until I was 10.

When I was in the studio doing 'Hungry Eyes,' we had to make it an '80s record, but we wanted it to feel like the '60s.

My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song.

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

I miss being able to just hang out with people and friends and grab ice cream or go to the cinema... the normal stuff.

I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school.

I will always love 'Full House.' It's become so iconic. It was such a long-running, successful show with people that I really love.

I think back to the Eagles, Elton John, people like that when I think about the Troubadour. It's an iconic place.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I miss my family so much. My ideal holiday is just to hang out with them.

In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

You could identify with Panchamda's music. It made you fall in love. It made your heart beat. It made you feel you are young.

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.