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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.