Quotes About Identity

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

There is no better feeling for a Manc kid than scoring for United.

Being a home-grown player, I achieved what I set out to do by playing and scoring for Barca. I consider I was a success.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

I am one of the many Scots who has had to leave Scotland in order to find employment so I in no way feel ashamed I have not been in Scotland.

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

I've always been a bit scared to say that I'm Scottish because it's almost as if people wouldn't believe me or people wouldn't buy that from me, or people wouldn't accept it. And so now I think nobody has got the right to tell you what you are. You just are who you are.

I'm as Scottish as they come.

I still feel very Scottish.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

I'm Scottish, but I also feel British at that same time.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.