American Quote by Don McLean

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into…

— Don McLean

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me -…

— George Pelecanos

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

— Alanis Morissette

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

— Eddie Griffin

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble…

— Regina Spektor

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I kind of feel stuck in the late-Sixties and early-Seventies.

— Daisy Lowe

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

— Ernest Cline

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise…

— John Lahr

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

— Thom Browne