In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.