It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.