Personal Origin Quotes

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

I'm from the Midwest.

I'm an Arizona boy.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.

I'm called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me.

My mom and dad did something special when they made me.

I was born in Manchester, England.

I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the Luftwaffe to destroy it in the Second World War.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

It all started with music for me. Everything still does.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

I am from a place called Sardhana, which is near Meerut.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I am High Wycombe born and bred.

There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.

I am an American – Chicago born.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.