Alice Merton Quotes

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I have worked in so many countries over the years that I must have moved house about 20 times.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

Sometimes you're forced into change.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.