Lee Tergesen Quotes

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.

I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.

I watch college basketball and sports in general. I'm also a runner. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Central Park, so I try to squeeze in runs through Central Park when I can.

I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.

Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.