Dries van Noten Quotes

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.

I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me 'famous' and such, I can't really fathom it, even now.

In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

I live in Wellington now but I love going back to the farm where all you can hear are the cows or the sea crashing in about a kilometre away. Our uncle's farm is on the beach and we are one up from that towards the mountain.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

I grew up in a really small town.

I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.