The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!
I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.