The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.
I grew up on a lake on the border of Washington and Idaho.
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.
I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.
I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.
I lived in Minnesota in a small town.
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.
I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
