New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.