Steve Burns Quotes

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

New York can be a tad stressful.

In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I grew up in New York.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

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

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

New York City is an amazing place to raise children.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

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

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I probably shouldn't live in New York.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.