Maajid Nawaz Quotes

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

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

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.

I'm a kid from Nacogdoches.

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

I was born and brought up in Ambala.

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

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

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.