Quotes About Identity

I actually grew up listening to country music.

Alcoholism and country music are both tremendous aids to self-dramatisation.

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

I'm not trying to claim I'm a country singer, but I do love country music.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'

Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my own countrymen.

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

If you know sports in Dade County, you know me.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

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

My ma is from County Clare, so she's a Munster fan, so she keeps sending me Munster jerseys all the time, trying to convert me to Munster.

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

I had my hair down for a long time. I shaved my head, you know, a couple of years ago. And, then, I started to wear my hair short, and I thought that was cool. But, at the same time, I never want to put rules down on me and say, 'OK, I do this for this and this for that.' I just don't like rules. I don't.

Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.

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?'

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

I have a lot of cousins that I don't know. But I think that happens to any celebrity. I wonder how many cousins does Michael Phelps have?