Elvis Costello Quotes

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

My son will be an American, but I remain French.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That is discomfiting for me, and a tragedy for America.

It's great to be British, really. If anything happens, I'm back to my country. At least I have a country.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.