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I was born and raised in Detroit.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent.

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.