Quotes About Roots

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

I don't know much about my biological background.

Birmingham is my second home.

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

My parents were blue-collar.

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I haven't lost my blues roots.

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

I was from Scotts Bluff, Neb.

I don't look at it as Hollywood or Bollywood, but, of course, my roots are here, and at the end of the day, it's about your roots. You can't take India out of me.

I'm country to the bone.

Europe has been in my bones.

I call Boston home because it's where I started coming into my own.