When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America - there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
Detroit is a hard city.
It's really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.
Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing.
There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.
Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.
I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent.
Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.
There's no place I love more than Detroit.
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.
