J. R. Smith Quotes

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

'House' was such a special part of my life.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

Singapore has always held a special place in my heart.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

I have the same blankie that I've had since childhood.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars', and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.