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I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

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

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.