“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?”

“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.”

“These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.”

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”

“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”

“This was where i needed to be for the rest of my life and it didn't matter if it was in New York, L.A or Timbuktu. He was home to me and nothing was more important than being with him.”