“I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.”

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”

“I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.”

“My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.”

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because I did my artistic "growing up" while working in this crazy, wonderful city back in my twenties. Although I love the quieter, slower, nature-rich life I live now in the sheep-dotted hills of Devon, there are ways in which I still feel more truly myself here in New York, more than anywhere else. Even after all this time in the desert and on Dartmoor. Strange, isn't it?”