El-P Quotes

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

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.

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirable place to live.

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

The lifestyle of Vancouver does seem to really draw me towards there.

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.