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Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.