I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
