I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.
I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.
I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.
When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.
When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
I'm kind of a globetrotter. I've been traveling since I was born and living in different locations.
I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.
I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.
When I'm in the U.K. - and I'm here more than people would think - I tend to keep a very low profile.
I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.
I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.
People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.
I'd always had this romantic idea, ever since I've been writing scripts, that I would travel one day and pull up stumps, as we say in Australia. It's a cricket reference. You can Google it. Pull up stumps in some country like Italy or Spain and do my little Truman Capote thing.
Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.
