My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.
My style has definitely grown since moving to New York and working on 'Gossip Girl.' I'm more aware of a lot of designers and I'm more aware of fashion.
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
