Coastal Vacation Quotes

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches - even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.

We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast.

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.