Brandon Flowers Quotes

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.

Even with my family, I feel sort of 'other.' I'm the only one of my siblings who wasn't born in Jamaica. For a long time, I didn't feel very connected to Jamaican culture, but because I was raised so heavily with that cultural influence, I realized that my inner monologue is a Jamaican woman.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.

A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

I have Asian friends - second generation - and I am the worst in terms of being in touch with my heritage.

I used to think the whole world was Jewish.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.

My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.

It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.