I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
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I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
The people really are what make New York City great.
I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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