Quotes About Nostalgia

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school days. I really liked the space I was in when I was reading it.

I still use my iPod all the time.

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.

I remember being very free in Ireland.

I hated school in Ireland.

Ireland is home. And I'd love to move home. That's always been the plan.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.

I'm very proud that I was always able to be myself and didn't really care what people thought when I wanted bangs with my little Con-Air curling iron, and I wanted to wear glitter on my eyes and rings on every finger and charm necklaces that look like I was wearing baggage while I skated. But I do look back, and man, those '90s bangs.

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

It's so easy as a child to identify with 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The humour doesn't talk down at you. It's a very grown up humour - a little bit ironic, a bit self deprecating.

Anakattil Chackochi was a titular character that appealed to all irrespective of age and my son, as a kid, used to call himself Kochu Chackochi.

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

My style in Italian is very old-style.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

When I do retire, I am going to go back to Italy.