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You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

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 wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.

When I visit new places, I like to see the markets.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.