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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

London is a roost for every bird.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

London is a modern Babylon.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.