You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Sure, girls from New York, they are tough. And girls from Georgia, they are sweet. But those born and bred feisty Kentucky girls, they are the ones you have to look out for. We have sugar and fire in our blood. We can ride a horse, be a débutante, throw a left hook and tell you the entire UK line up all while making sweet tea. And if we have an opinion, you get to know it. We're both the pride and the downfall of the bluegrass...

There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful.

There's things in it that just aren't good for New York. There's things in it that aren't good for consumers.

Historically, we have an international cachet about our city. The bottom line is that we're Saratoga Springs, New York. We are interested in international tourism, but we still have to pay our own bills.

He went into the studio and recorded the sounds here, in New York.