Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.
I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.
Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.
My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.
'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.
'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.
When I was a kid, I was always enamored by - I appreciated the movies, and I was able to see them on VHS when I was a kid, but I was so enamored by the one-sheets and the posters. I had them in my room when I was a kid.
Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.
But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.
