Quotes About Belonging

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Playing for a team you grew up rooting for, there's nothing cooler than that.

I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

At school I was the mousey one in the corner that nobody really liked.

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.

In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe.

Country music belongs to America.

Country music is who I really, really am deeply.

That's my heart, I feel like I began and will die in country music.

I think citizenship should count for something... and it really counts for nothing.

Family counts for a lot in this world.

I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.

Knox County is home. I love it here, and I love the people.

I spent many years of my childhood in Wyoming County and my roots are deep there.

I think it's such a courageous thing to look around and say, 'If I don't get to be one of the lucky ones who are born with a family, how do I put that in my life?'

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

I was born in America and played high school in America, but at the same time, my family, my cousins, the way we play the game, it's all Latin.