3,292 Quotes About New-york

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.