In a day when you can kind of choose where you can play…

I love coming back around Northern California.

— Jon Pardi

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got…

— Tyler Florence

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what…

— Nicolas Berggruen

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

— Christine Feehan

I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint…

— Mare Winningham

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San…

— Doug LaMalfa

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

— Clint Eastwood

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner…

— Stephen Gaghan

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight,…

— Grant Show

I think California has some very good looking women... I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran - who's…

— Marisa Miller

I grew up in Northern California, all I ever did was race and that's all I was focused on.

— Kyle Larson

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

— Craig Kilborn

I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time. We would go to games in the…

— Marisa Miller

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to…

— Summer Sanders

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

— Jessica Chastain