Quotes About Nostalgia

I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I ever heard was jazz and it was American jazz, and it was big-band jazz, to be more defined.

Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

I'd like to see 'French and Saunders' back. They were hugely influential for me. They make me laugh so much; even their breathing makes me laugh.

I remember watching 'Three's Company' with my parents, and it was time for bed, so I started to make my voice lower like Don Knotts and imitating him. They started laughing, and I didn't have to go to bed, so that informed a lot.

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

Dad was great fun and I was a real daddy's girl. I inherited my love of music from him.

Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.

Films I did initially, like 'Arth' and 'Saransh' are really close to my heart.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I used to make my dad stop at the video store every time we drove past it, and you had to drive past the video store to get to our house.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

I loved playing young Diana so much. I am so fond of her, it's almost insane.

There are so many rom-coms that I think are insane. But they're the kind of movies that I put on when I need something that I know isn't gonna horrify me before I go to sleep.

I think in 'Rocky IV' there are three montages with three five-minute songs, which is insane. You can't do that today.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

Punjab is inseparable from my personality as I have spent a lot of time in my growing up years here.

I get really homesick inside.

Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrigible romantic.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.