Quotes About Urban

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

Man, it's hard living in N.Y.C. - even when you have money in your pockets.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.

Climate change is ravaging our cities - we can't just let that happen.

I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

For me, I coin Austin as being kind of a baby brother to L.A. Because it's pretty much the same thing; L.A. is just amplified to the nth degree.

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.