Yuna Quotes

I wanted to leave so much that when I heard I had a good offer to play and leave England, it was a case of me saying: 'I love it! Yes, let's go!'

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

I really wanted to get out of England.

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

The early colonists came over with motives no less colonial than the later. They did not come to be assimilated in an American melting pot. They did not come to adopt the culture of the American Indian. They had not the smallest intention of 'giving themselves without reservation' to the new country. They came to get freedom to live as they wanted to. They came to escape from the stifling air and chaos of the old world; they came to make their fortune in a new land.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

I cannot become the best in the world by staying in Lyon; that's clear.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.'