Gary Lockwood Quotes

I am a California Kid.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

I'm a Cali girl through and through.

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

I'm meant for California.

Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

We never really wanted to play in California.

It's hard for me not to play on the West Coast. I love it out there.

I love the way of life out in California, and I've made a lot of friends out there. The food is amazing.

I was more of a surfer girl and never really that punky.

I'm a California kid.

There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

I had fallen in love with California.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

It's really important to me to stick to my roots by doing what's West Coast: wearing T-shirts and shorts.