Regina Spektor Quotes

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

I grew up in New York.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

Gray feels like the city.

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.