On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.

New York is my home.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

That's when i get to go back to New York to visit my friends and just chill out with them. I'd rather have that break than to have a longer summer.