Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

We left Germany when I was 11.

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as - in my late teens.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.