Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.

Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.

When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to Brixton and Herne Hill. Herne Hill is a tiny place that is ridiculously overstocked with lovely pubs.

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

My parents retired to New York City, and my brother and both of my sisters ended up in New York City. We are all New York City transplants from Pennsylvania.

Well, I moved to Washington, D.C. when I was just fresh out of college.

I've lived in New York City all my life. I love New York City; I've never moved from New York City. Have I ever thought about moving out of New York? Yeah, sure. I need about $10 million to do it right, though.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made.

I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

Millennials want to live in urban areas.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.