Jeremy Scott Quotes

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I'll miss everything about Palermo. The people always made me feel at home; it will be impossible to forget my experiences there. Palermo made me become a man.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

I think people are excited because, even watching 'Boy Meets World,' you can tell that those characters are going to do something when they get older. I think people are excited to see characters they grew up with continue.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.