Quotes About City

I'm grateful I grew up in Stockholm.

I do most of my post production in Stockholm, usually at night, so when I get out of the office at 3 or 4 in the morning, I usually walk around the city before I go home - that's my routine.

Just the city of Stockholm was really, really nice. Walking around the city was pretty cool.

I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.

I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

We are a country of laws, and we implement laws for public safety all the time: our seatbelt laws, our stop sign laws, our red light laws. In the absence of those laws, you have lawlessness. You have disorder. You really can't have a functional city.

Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.

I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.

Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. Ask what are the clothes of the city, what does this city represent for me?

I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.

Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what we had to rely on after the storm.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.

London audiences are the most challenging around - it's a group of such diverse strangers.

New Orleans is a great city. My favorite part is the music. I love being to walk on the street and dance with strangers. It's really fun.