Ice Cube Quotes

The 80s was an outstanding era.

When it comes to the '90s, there's nothing I want to repeat.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

I'm a child of the '80s.

I'm from the '80s, man. I got ideas; that's what we do.

The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other '80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.

The period between 1980 and 1995 was my era.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I did love Cher from Clueless. She had a great '90s wardrobe. The pleated skirts and the little knee-high socks and the whole school-girl thing.

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.