Quotes About Nostalgia

In my childhood home, the chip pan was always on the go.

I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.

When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.

I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.

Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. 'Parachutes' was a good album.

I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles.

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

First CD I bought for myself was 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to 'Paradise City' by Guns 'N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I'll never forget that.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

It wasn't until I was 14 that I finally saw her films. We found an old 16-millimeter projector in the attic, put up a bedsheet - I ironed it myself - and watched reels that were given to her by Paramount.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.