Frankie Cosmos Quotes

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

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

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

In L.A., you have to drive; in New York, you can do it on foot. The variety, the potential, of people is in your face. Like any good creator, you want to steal everything.

New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

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

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.