Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.
The energy from the fans in Boston is always something we can count on for support.
I would love to play for Kerala because there is nothing like playing for a home team.
On the European nights, the corporate fans from overseas can't get tickets. It's mainly local fans. That's why the atmosphere is so great and the passion is so strong.
Liverpool is a club where you need to be there to enjoy it. It's not worth owning Liverpool if you are going to always be 20,000 miles away.
The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.
There's always something special playing in your home country in front of your home audience.
I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.
Nothing quite beats playing on home soil in front of a home crowd.
I get a lot of support from the West Coast. But I think that's beginning to change. I think, as the awareness goes up, and as I continue to be consistent, more people from my area come around, and they're converted into Joe Budden fans.
With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'
It's always great to be home and play in front of family and friends, especially for a big game.
I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it's always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.
I think derbies are really special because it's two local teams playing.
When you are playing in front of your own crowd, you want them to support you.
The fans here in D.C. since Day One they support the team, support me. It's something special.
I don't know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team's city.
We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.
When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.
My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
