We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.
There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.