Anderson East Quotes

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people.

I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.

I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

I'm from just outside London, near Reading.

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

I was a very religious child.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

I'm a product of the 1970s.

The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.

I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the courtyards, the hutongs, the old city, and all the art forms - so, very naturally, I brought this to my practice.

I'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.