Anthony Burgess Quotes

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

I've always felt very English.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

I'm not a massive reader of online comments but I come across the odd comment where people still question if I'm English. I find that so silly.

I don't feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don't really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it's a mixture of all the things I've listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal.

Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.

I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos.

I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.