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London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.