Brian Fallon Quotes

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.

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.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

For years, I've mocked Norfolk and King's Lynn, and now I find out I'm from there!

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

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.

My music is about identity.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

I am who I am, a Southie.

South Central is just who I am.

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

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

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

Derby born and bred, mate.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.