Kerli Quotes

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.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

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

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

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

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

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

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 lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

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

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.