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I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.