The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.
Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.
Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.
We must shout out from the rooftops that Minneapolis is the best place on Earth.
London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
California starts a lot of trends.
I just believe that in Atlanta, we're creative; we got a lot of styles out here.
The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.
