Caroline Polachek Quotes

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.

New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

People in New York never have time for anything.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.

Delhi is always buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. There's always something to do.