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I was born and raised in Detroit.

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

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

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

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

I grew up in the suburbs.