British invasion Quote by Patrick Cox

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd…

— Ron Mael

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was…

— V. S. Naipaul

I almost felt like I knew London before the first time I went there.

— Shahid Khan

I was always performing as a child, and then I was determined to act and sing and dance, so I travelled for miles every…

— Kelly Brook

I was born and brought up in England.

— Raj Kundra

It's always hard to analyze the effect of your nationality and your surroundings or anything like that. I think in some ways we failed…

— Ron Mael

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I…

— Gordon Lightfoot

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

— Dan Hawkins

We're obviously a London band, and British at heart.

— Ted Dwane

I started singing because I come from Wales

— Bryn Terfel

The fact is that I loved being in England.

— Anonymous

Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So,…

— Derek Taylor