Sean Baker Quotes

I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.

I love San Francisco for the music culture. There's this vibe there that I can't find anywhere else in the world. Easily one of the best places on the sea coast.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

The atmosphere in St. Lucia is incredibly friendly, and I always felt very safe and looked after.

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

I love Scarborough. I think I have more wins there than anyone else.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.

I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.

I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.

Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.

I am incredibly passionate about craft but am just as passionate about supporting local craft companies.

I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother's neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama... but with better accents.

When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.

I've lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else in my life. All four of our boys were born and raised here. All of our friends are here.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

We're not going to be the fastest-growing or the biggest. I think there's plenty of room for a little old sandwich shop like ours.