Kenny Stills Quotes

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

I'm a typical California boy.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

I still wear Vans.

I don't remember a day where I didn't own a pair of Vans or Chucks. I just try to wear what I feel comfortable in.

I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.

I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

Orange County encompasses a large area that has a lot of Alkaline Trio fans.

I do not experiment very much and prefer the kind of clothes that Sabyasachi designs - they are rooted in our traditions and yet are very modern. I think it has something to do with my growing-up years and the kind of clothes I saw around me.

We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.