Regina Spektor Quotes

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.

The '80s were wild. The hair, the clothes.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, 'I Love the 80s,' nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

I watched 'I Love the '80s' on VH1.

I was a child of the '80s.

I was obsessed with Nintendo.

There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed sheets.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write.

Everyone looks cool in the '90s.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

My mom loves the '80s. I grew up hearing a lot about the '80s.

I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out.

You know, the '80s, as crazy as the '80s were, that was a surprisingly kind and generous environment that I found myself in as a teenager.

I love the '80s. I'm obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.