I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were…

If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has…

— Shane Meadows

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

— Kim Gordon

“Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a…

— Holly Black

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an…

— David Hepworth

Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of.

— Jani Lane

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

— Pedro Almodovar

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent…

— Elizabeth Flock

The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

— Winona Ryder

The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

— John Grant

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

— Don Winslow

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”

— Ernest Cline

“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

— Radha Ravi