Jidenna Quotes

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.

For me, a relationship with a place is very fundamental. When you're moving - when you're leaving your life and the place where you've lived on a semi-regular basis - you tend to connect the sense of your entire life to that place that you've left.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

It's great to be British, really. If anything happens, I'm back to my country. At least I have a country.

Pakistan is my home; I don't want to feel harassed in my own home.