I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.
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My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.