Bowie Quote by Tibor Fischer

If you're reaching for a local reference to drop for a place that is typical of everything wrong with Britain, you would switch between…

— Nish Kumar

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

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

— Lisa Stansfield

“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough with access…

— Kate Griffin

I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.

— Zawe Ashton

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because…

— Diana Quick

I've lived in Croydon most of my life.

— Wilfried Zaha

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

— Zawe Ashton

The place where I grew up, New Addington, Croydon, there's literally only one exit, which is the same way you came in. It makes…

— Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Maybe it's not all that bad that Bremen's a smaller city. There are more temptations in London than in Bremen.

— Serge Gnabry

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears…

— Rebecca Loos