Town Character Quotes

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

You know, Rochdale is a really nice place, but it's not the most interesting place on the planet.

Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.

We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.