I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.
I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.
I'm from the Midwest.
At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.
The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.
Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.
I like being... in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs.
The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.
Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.
Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.
Outstanding people in Iowa. Very down-to-earth people in Iowa. It was a great place to be.
I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.
I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.
Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.
I'm a Midwesterner.
I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.
I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Coming from L.A., rush hour from 8 to 10 and from 3 to 5 on the freeways. Everything was so congested. Indiana, there's never any traffic. People are warm and nice. People are warm and nice in California, but you never know. You might run across Sirhan Sirhan the next day in L.A.
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
As soon as I stepped foot in Minnesota, I've been shown nothing except love.
