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My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town, a suburb. But Tenafly was right next to Englewood, which had a tremendous amount of racial tension in the '60s. So I was aware of the real world.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

I grew up in New York.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.