Go Quote by Irvine Welsh

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes…

— Terry Pratchett

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

— Deana Carter

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know…

— Alan Cumming

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I love coming back to Scotland.

— Malcolm Young

Scotland is extraordinary as a location, the light is amazing, for instance on the west coast.

— Denis Lawson

I guess it's interesting traveling, for me, because I never in my life until doing this felt a sense of being from anywhere particularly,…

— Will Farquarson

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but…

— Alexander Graham Bell

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

— Jimmy Somerville

Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever…

— Rolf Potts

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense…

— Gayle Rankin