Geographic Roots Quotes

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

I'm from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.

My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.