Quotes About Origins

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

I'm from Salford, and I don't have any immediate Irish connection.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me just because I'm Irish, but it is where I'm from. I'm extremely proud to be Irish.

I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

I don't think that it's ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your history.

My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.

Offer is actually my first name. My Dad is Israeli, so that isn't totally made up.

I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

I'm Italian.

My name is an Italian name because my father is an Italian and my mother is Indian.

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

I don't really have a blueprint to follow besides watching interviews. Well, I guess the blueprint I do follow is Def Jam, in a way, just because it started in a small space, which is so similar to how we started.

I was born at home in rural Japan.