Quotes About Nostalgia

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I've no complaints.

George and I met in 1975 at Bushey Meads secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire. I was in my second year - self-confident, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and excitable. He was the new boy and I was keen that I should get to look after him.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded.

I listened to R. Kelly growing up.

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

I grew up on Jodeci and R. Kelly.

I don't know if my mum and President Kennedy ever dated, but they were friends and there are some letters from him that she kept - sweet and innocent letters saying, 'Saw you in the play the other night and you were fantastic.'

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the 'Dukes of Hazzard' weren't actually from Hazard, Kentucky.

I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.

I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.

I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.

Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.

I know I get a real kick, an emotional charge, out of playing a song I haven't played for 10 years. It just takes you back to that point in your life.

I wanted that song 'Saat samundar' in 'Kick.' There are many memories attached to it. The song makes 'Kick' all the more special.

I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead Kennedys, but I'm also listening to Simple Minds.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.