Kim Yuna Quotes

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

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

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

I live in L.A. Now.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate parks, like, every day and do motor cross, like, every weekend, and I was kind of one of those girls.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

I love L.A., but I don't live there. I spent some time there when I was recording 'Kaleidoscope,' mainly working with some of the artists I collaborated with. The city and people in L.A. have a great vibe and the weather is always beautiful.

I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures and skating with us.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.