"I've got a great place, it's a country house"
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The syntax does a lot of the work. Two clauses, no ornament, no apology. That directness carries the rock persona: say it plain, let the implication land. And the implication is status without the glossy celebrity vocabulary. She doesn’t say mansion, estate, or compound; she says country house, a phrase with old-money calm and a faintly domestic, almost pastoral counterimage to the leather-and-amps mythology. It’s a flex that refuses to sparkle.
There’s also a gendered subtext. When women in rock talk about possessions, it’s often framed as vanity or excess. Ford’s line dodges that trap by presenting ownership as sanctuary. The intent feels practical: I have somewhere that’s mine. In a culture that tried to treat her as a guest in her own genre, the country house becomes an argument you can’t heckle - stability as a kind of revenge.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ford, Lita. (2026, January 16). I've got a great place, it's a country house. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-great-place-its-a-country-house-127514/
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Ford, Lita. "I've got a great place, it's a country house." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-great-place-its-a-country-house-127514/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've got a great place, it's a country house." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-great-place-its-a-country-house-127514/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.


