Zadie Smith Quotes

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

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

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

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I'm a Midwesterner.

I'm Southern to the bone.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

I used to have a little Geordie accent when I was younger; they called me Little Geordie Fran.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

Even though you'll see gnocchi or linguine everywhere in some of the regions of Italy, each of those chefs has their own expression of that which expresses more about the place they were exactly born than it does about trying to be a part of the greater mass. And that's the Italian culture.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

I'm still very much a Northerner. I try to have chips and gravy twice a week.

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.

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.