Urban Lifestyle Quotes

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.

I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

I moved to New York at 17 to go to school. At 24, I moved back to Ithaca, then moved back to New York at 28.

I love living in New York.

I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I never felt like 'I'm an underground dude' or 'I can only be hot in New York.'

People in Chicago are so cool! They are different; they're friendly and just genuinely happy. Everyone's so polite and sweet. They even look cool.

We're from New York, so we have a decent following.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.

Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.