Jason Molina Quotes

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a foundation. I think a lot of it has to do with it's such an intense music city in its own right.

What I really like is that Chicago is a big city: it has a large market, and you are exposed to everything, like shows and plays.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

I love the London vibe. I get so much love from London that I never had from other places. It's crazy. The people there understand music so much more.

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

Detroit is full of talent.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.