I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.
I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.