Jonny Bairstow Quotes

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

My life began with Ronnie.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.