My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'
I like Miami.
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.
I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.
I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
My favorite place is Maui. It's almost perfect there - the people, the weather, just everything. No matter how busy you are, when you get to Maui, you chill and relax.
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
