Janis Ian Quotes

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

Nashville's been like my second home.

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

A big piece of my heart is definitely in Michigan and will always be in Michigan. Growing up there is definitely a big part of who I am as a person.

The thing about Nashville that's amazing is everyone plays... so you don't meet up for a drink, you meet up for a pick. It's an incredibly creative town, just bubbling with energy.

I call Boston home because it's where I started coming into my own.

For me, Munich is more than just a second home. I can imagine staying forever.

Puszczykowo is an important place in my life. I feel like I am at home there.

Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.

I'm so grateful to America and my hometown of Pittsburgh. I love my city. I'm proud of being from here.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.

In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.

Mizzou was my real family. I loved it. Football was a sense of home. A home I never had.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

I kind of look at Boston as my second home.

This is my home; I've made it my home for my whole life. I'm an old Nashville veteran.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.

Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn't want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me.