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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Life in California is beautiful.

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

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

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

California is always in my mind.