Patti Scialfa Quotes

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

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