Quotes About Nostalgia

I had a great time at Michigan State, but no four years will compare to Saginaw High.

I love Michigan.

I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was on the radio in Michigan. There was a lot of Steely Dan; just a lot of great music inspired me.

A big piece of my heart is definitely in Michigan and will always be in Michigan. Growing up there is definitely a big part of who I am as a person.

I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it doesn't look like the Michigan that I think of when I talk about my pride.

Being with my family is my favorite thing about being back in Michigan.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

I've been in the industry doing games since the BBC Micro, the Acorn Atom, the Commodore 64.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.

'Freaky Friday' was my favorite movie in middle school.

Going out with friends for a nice dinner and then attending the midnight mass are some of the memories I cherish.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

I loved Milan. I was there for six years and made my stories there.