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I grew up in the suburbs.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

We've always been suburb people, and we lived in the East Bay when I was in Oakland. This time around, we're staying in the city, and my kids are getting that city life experience, which is something you don't get too much of in Alabama.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.