Pete Townshend Quotes

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

I have classic and feminine taste. I'm definitely drawn to vintage-inspired and ladylike things. I like an accentuated waist, and a strong shoulder works well with my figure.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.

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

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow!

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Trends have come and gone and they're coming back my way so I'm super excited about that.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

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

I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I'm attracted to the past.

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.