Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town.

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.