It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown.
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.
My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else.
Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.
I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.
