Jack Antonoff Quotes

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

I'm from New Jersey, the Shore, and Asbury Park and all that goes with that. I wouldn't want to mess around with that. I like New Jersey. There are nice people here.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

New Jersey was like home for me the first time I was there.

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

I grew up in a little pit village on the outskirts of Durham.

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

I was the guy from the Jersey Shore, Springsteen country. We don't do yoga there. And we made fun of anybody who did.

I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.

I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'