Alice Merton Quotes

Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Wherever is your heart I call home.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.