West Coast Quotes

L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

A lot of people - they might think I fell off, but they don't know I'm eating. I'm on the West coast, eating. It's just they don't hear about me because they don't see me on the TV. But I'm still around.

Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

Another factor aggravating the isolation of the South American republics one from another is that in almost every instance their centers of population and of industrial development are distant from their frontiers. Moreover, the border zones between the different countries are, with few exceptions, wildernesses of mountains, desert or jungle. The Andes Mountains not only present a natural barrier which stretches the length of the continent between the east and west coast countries, but they also act to keep apart Pacific coast nations such as Peru and Ecuador.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Los Angeles has always been very supportive of us.

I live in San Francisco, and I love it.

I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.

I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.

I love L.A. I'm a full-blown cheerleader for it.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

Fashion gave me the platform that has made this transition from fashion to Hollywood, from East Coast to West Coast. Fashion gave me the platform that has made this easier than it is for a lot of other people. And I will always count fashion as the industry that was first to welcome me and embrace what I could do.

The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity.

Some people be game-goofy and words don't sound right coming out of their mouthpiece. But whenever E-40 says something it's just solidified.

I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

I've been everywhere man. I'm from L.A., though.

It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once.

A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not. I don’t want any of them ...

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

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

I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure New York is the best city in the world - at least for an American guy like me.

In the spring of 2012, I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my wife and two young sons.