Edward Ruscha Quotes

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

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.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

I probably shouldn't live in New York.

New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.

I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

I really enjoy living in New York, but I don't enjoy the weather so much!

I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.