Paul Walker Quotes

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I am no longer a Virginian. I am an American.

Local Nationalism

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.