Quotes About Urban

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

You can always recognise my restless peers and me; we are the people whose feet you hear tramping along the pavement at the other end of the phone line because we can only make calls while moving.

Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

I got a studio built in my house, so I was recording there in Memphis and Atlanta. Those two environments give me that street feel.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in New York.

'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.

If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.

Dad hates London.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

I used to be a Peckham boy, we used to have ghetto boys or maybe like Brixton. And sometimes we'd hear about the greasiest ones but we'd never have seen them before.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

When you live in a city where you're always in and out of a car or a building, I feel it's... better to treat a heavier, tweedier sport coat almost as you would outerwear.

New York is a town of my height.

I'll walk around the city, and people will come up to me and say, 'Hi,' or 'Keep up the good work,' or whatever, and I'll stop and talk to them.

Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.

Isco doesn't hide who he is, his football is from the street.