Alice Merton Quotes

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

I don't really live anywhere.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

I've lived in so many different towns - Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, Jersey City. We didn't have a lot of money, and we'd get kicked out of places a lot.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.