Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.

My father was a welder on the second-highest sail, so the Opera House has a special place in my heart.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.

If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.

Coming to Middlesex, there was one coach in particular who backed me. But outside of that, it's a pretty lonely place.

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special skill that actors have.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.