Nostalgic Themes Quotes

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

The poetry of country music will survive.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.

I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

I like period pieces.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.