Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

- Cheryl James

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

- Evel Knievel

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

- Eric Burdon

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

- Drew Holcomb

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

- Diana Krall

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

- Daryl Hannah

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.

- Drew Goddard

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

- Drew Bledsoe

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

- Dolly Parton

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

- Columba Bush

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

- Ang Lee

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

- Buddy Rice

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

- Boyd Holbrook

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

- Barry Humphries

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

- Bruce Springsteen

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.

- Britney Spears

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

- B. B. King

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

- Agnieszka Radwanska

The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.

- Austin Mahone