Dan Auerbach Quotes

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.

L.A. feels like a really small town to me.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.

There were other clubs that I had options to go to, but Fulham has always kind of been like home to me.

In my hometown, I know everybody.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.