Quotes About Nostalgia

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

For me to do interviews is painful. People don't know that. To do an interview is going back in time. And to go back in time, maybe it wasn't all the time that good.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

You know, if I cleaned out my backpack, which I don't really use anymore, I'd find a bunch of beads. I have a bunch of little girl cousins, they used to paint my toenails and stuff, and they'd make beaded bracelets and there are so many beads everywhere. It's kinda embarrassing.

Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to sleep over at her house. They came to me when she passed away. I remember looking at them when I was a girl, and now, every time I see them, I feel good.

I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends. I really like the ones from the Seventies with the heels.

All I ever wanted to do was wear Jordans. I think there was only one or two pair I never had.

When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans.

My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.

The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.

My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old girl reckons she's got a pair.

My first pair of shoes my mom bought me. I was born in 1985 and my mom is the biggest North Carolina/Michael Jordan fan there is, so when those first Jordan's came out those were my first shoes ever. I don't remember but I guess it started from there.

My mom used to call me a 'jean hoarder' growing up because I had so many pairs of jeans - and I still do.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Crystal Palace were my first club and one I hold dear to my heart.

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

My old man worked for Pan American.