Elliott Yamin
Musician
1978-07-20
Quotes by Elliott Yamin
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My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.
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I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
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Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.
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I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
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