Aim Quote by John Updike

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from…

— Garrison Keillor

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the…

— Jeff Buckley

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.…

— John Updike

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on…

— Alex Turner

One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

— Miuccia Prada

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws…

— Christopher Bollen

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone…

— Frankie Cosmos

I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire.

— Sissy Spacek

New York is the hometown I represent.

— Gza

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

— Joseph O'Neill

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'

— Brian Quinn

I'm in a New York state of mind

— Billy Joel