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I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

New York is tough on lonely people.

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.