Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

For me, London is and always will be home.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

I'm probably going to be ashamed to say this... It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I had just enough money for the 'My Posse's on Broadway' single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money.

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

I'm just a product of the '90s, to be honest.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

There's always something about home that's special.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.