Lou Reed Quotes

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

I do not want to stay in Washington.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

I hated Long Island, and I had to get out.

'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

I felt like a typical kid growing up, and Lawnside is a nice town with a huge historical significance.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

I just want to get as far away from Indiana as possible.

'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.