Kygo Quotes

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

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

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.