Quotes About Nostalgia

It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

BET was a touchstone for me and a lot of my friends - it was a place you could go to see exactly what being black in 1992 and 1996 was like and what it was supposed to look like.

I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

I never imagined as a kid that anybody could beat up 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff because Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan convinced me he was the toughest guy, that Andre The Giant was bigger than life, that Hulk Hogan was amazing and dug down deep.

I'm a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.

WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.

We're like a middle-aged boy band on tour.

I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.

I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.

My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White.' My mother was married in Cinderella's costume; the dwarves were the best men.

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.

I don't like when I see bands that are just a memory of what they used to be, and there's a few out there that I've seen recently that are still touring... I'm not gonna name them, but some of the members can barely play their parts, and then they have a lot of other members that weren't even originally in the band.