I grew up at the beach in Southern California and Rick grew up in East Bay, and we wanted to get back to the ocean; this felt like home. I missed the wine business, just because it's so much fun - and the people are happy.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.

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.

I'm not buying it. I grew up in Southern California. I'm not buying into (the notion) that has to be the image of L.A.

In Southern California, there's that feeling of people in transit. I grew up in Southern California, so whenever I ran across a world where your relatives stayed, and they lived a few miles away, and you have the roots that are really strong in your community, that always felt like a wonderful romantic notion. And this [movie] was about discovering this whole root system that you didn't realize you had.