Don Felder Quotes

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.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Since I belong to Chandigarh, I love coming to Punjab.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie… I missed the South since I've been gone!

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.

I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Derby born and bred, mate.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.