I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been around all music my entire life.
I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.
My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.
I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.
I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'