I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
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.
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
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 and always loved melodic pop music.
I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.
The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.
I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.
I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.