Maverick Carter Quotes

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island.

Most cities are the same.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.

Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.

I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.

I grew up in New York City and in London.