City Impact Quotes

I give Seattle credit for grooming me, making me the person I am today.

I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.

New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

A lot of those young folks look up to me in the city of Houston. I give hope and inspiration and try to change people's lives for the better in the city of Houston.

Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to be the governor of just upstate.

Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

New York is not a place that lets you be indifferent. New York is this kind of place that, wherever you go, wherever you move, you are always confronted by your own time.

As a kid I had gone to New York a handful of times with my family. I definitely think it planted a seed in me.

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that.

There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.

Honestly, I think, as an artist, it's everything that's in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.