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I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.