Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

I just always loved pinball.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

As a former music magazine editor, I still pine for the days when I used to know about all the best jams and new bands.

Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.

I used to have a bright pink, shiny bubble jacket when I was young. My mum made me wear it.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California musician Ariel Pink's music. It's impossible to separate 'Round and Round' from the anachronism, and there's no loving one without loving the other.

A piece that is extremely close to my heart is a gold ring with bouts of mint and baby pink that my grandfather gave to my mother and she passed it down to me. What's sweet is that it has my grandparent's name on the flipside.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Of course, watching 'Stand By Me' is, to me, the pinnacle of child performances in movies or shows. It doesn't get much better than that, and those kids, you feel like you know them instantly and they feel real.

I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

I love Pistol Pete and the pistols. Man, I just love to do that. I put on that Pistol Pete head and shoot those guns, that's fun.

I have so many photos of myself in my room when I was a kid; I had one wall that was all TLC posters that I got free at some record store, then another wall was all Public Enemy, and the last wall was all '90210.'

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used to scratch records on it - and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom's record or Pop's record, and they had their names on each and every one.