I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
Each day two things I am very grateful for:the blessing of a new day and a successful ending of the day.
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
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.
We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
