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When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.

I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.