I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
California: The west coast of Iowa.
Most Americans think that Canada is a part of the United States—a chilly part.
Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?
When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'
Most Americans don’t know the difference between Romania and Somalia
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.
I thought Europe was a country.
Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!
Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.
