El-P Quotes

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

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

I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

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 will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

I think I'll always consider the Quad Cities home.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

I'm a loner, and I'm most comfortable living by myself, but Bengaluru is home for me, as my family is there. Having said that, once you come to Mumbai, you can't turn your back on it. I've grown close to Mumbai now.

I love New York. It 'as made me who I am, know what I mean?

I love Stoke-on-Trent, it is where Rob grew up.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

I'm gonna miss playing for my hometown team. Living five minutes down the road.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.