Hometown Roots Quotes

Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still communicate with them on a hood level, if that's what you want to call it.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

I didn't actually grow up in London.

I'm from the Midwest.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

I was born in Homestead, Florida.

It's impossible to let fame go to your head when you still live in North Shields in a flat with your mum.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school.

I'll always be a Brooklyn girl.

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.

I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

I headed off to Yale, and eventually Georgetown Law, but I never forgot where I came from. I came back to South Carolina to teach 9th grade social studies.

I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.

It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

Derby born and bred, mate.