I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on ‚Hitchhiker’s Guide‘ with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

‚Border‘ was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

I just miss – I miss being anonymous.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‚Bad Bunny.‘

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.