Johann Johannsson Quotes

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

We're all products of our own environment.

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

Man is a child of his environment.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Kids are a product of their environment.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, your cultural trappings all make you who you are, and who you are makes your music.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.