Drew McIntyre Quotes

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I love Louisiana, and I love being from there.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

When I got to Alabama, I was really small.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

I love New Orleans.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.