John McDonnell Quotes

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Derby born and bred, mate.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

When I tell my husband stories of how I've grown up, he can't relate to it. I like it though, yeah, it's a badge of honour. You're from Up North, you've got to be a tiny bit rough round the edges. That's the charm!

I'm still very much a Northerner. I try to have chips and gravy twice a week.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.

I grew up a Tamilian.

My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.

I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.

Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.