Quotes About Nostalgia

I do find myself missing the energy of New York more and more often as my time away from the city progresses.

I thought after that fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, if this was supposed to be fight of the decade, then people must be missing me a lot more.

Obviously I'm missing the city life.

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all of my records and mix it up.

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I've had the 'Countdown' theme-tune as my mobile phone ringtone for years.

Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

You can listen to a lot of cowboy records that sound goofy and almost cartoon-y. Its a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

I like all the '90s girls - Amber Valletta is so beautiful. I even love all the '60s models, like Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, they were so cool.

I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

I simply admire Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar.

When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.