King Tuff Quotes

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I moved to Queens from New Jersey in 2004 and have continued to stick with New York to such a degree that when people ask me to explain it, I'm sometimes unable to provide an answer.

A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.

When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

I moved to Dallas, and I started making music.

London has become a real home.

When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window.

I really would move to L.A. I'm thinking so hard about it. Like, I wanna move to L.A., but I'm such a New York City girl - the fast life, the runways on the street - but I love L.A.'s vibe, so I would move here, but I'm still thinking about it!