When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
Detroit is part of my family and part of my life, my home.
As a kid from Detroit, I played whatever sport was in season: football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it was. I was an active kid.
I fought in Detroit 23 times.
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.
I like Detroit.
Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a lot of other places in the country. I will never forget that. It's a home away from home. I love it.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.
I like Detroit a lot.
I appreciate Detroit so much.
I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.
Detroit is a hard city.
