Miyavi Quotes

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

I always say I represent my family when I'm in my country, but I represent my big family, which is Georgia, when I'm outside of my country.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

I was the all-American face.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

And I think it's important to remain loyal to your home country, from where you started.

Being English, being born in England, this is our home and we should be supporting our home country.

I think when I say my county, it is always India.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

There is nothing more beautiful than being able to represent my country.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

India is my motherland.