Revisiting Past Quotes

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

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.

For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.