Quotes About Home

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

I grew up in Plano, Texas.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.

I'm from Houston, Texas.

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

I don't hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It's like home.

I have a good fan base in Texas. It's almost like a second home.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

I eat out a lot, so being at home is just great. I usually make a chicken rice recipe that I picked up in Thailand years ago. The chicken has to be boiled before adding in chillies, ginger, soy and white pepper. Then you make a kind of pilaf. Its delicious.

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.