Justin Vernon Quotes

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

Derby born and bred, mate.

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I'm a Midwesterner.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

I'm a kid from Boston.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

I am a typical Telugu boy dominated by all the qualities of a Hyderabadi because I was born and brought up here.

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.

I've never stopped being a Hoosier.

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.

Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.

I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.