Quotes About Nostalgia

'Jersey Shore' is one of the best shows of all time. They had so many hooks.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I've watched the Masters on TV since I was young, I remember watching Jimmy White and a few others, so I can't wait to play there myself.

I loved Jimmy Snuka as a fan.

Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

I grew up as a Food Emporium and Waldbaum's and A&P kid, and Trader Joe's came with their own line of products that all seem healthy, even though they probably aren't. That said, I do love the dried fruit because it's made without the sulfates and the sulfur dioxides and preservatives and is totally delicious.

There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like, 'For the same reason that I don't play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.' It's like, 'I'm a grown-up.' I wrote that music when I was a kid.

My favorite player back then was Joe Adcock. I don't know why he was my favorite player. He just was.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.

The first live gig I ever saw was Johnny Cash at the Birmingham Odeon in 1971. I was 14 and went with my dad.

I was watching Johnny Carson when I was way too young to be awake that late.

I grew up in the 60s, and before the 60s, my father was into Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, so I heard those records all the time and soaked that up.