Bälle / Balls Brooklyn Er / He Gebraucht / Used Gestell / Rack Gleason Insel / Island Kind / Kid Lange / Long Long Island Mir / Me
My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
In the long run, competition makes us better... it drives innovation.
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
