Captivity Quote by Christine McVie

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

— Diana Ross

I had every intention of leaving Los Angeles, moving to New York, and starting over - but life happened, as it always does.

— Stassi Schroeder

Who knows where I would be if I didn't come to L.A. I probably would have been locked up or dead.

— Shannon Leto

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a…

— Justine Kurland

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was…

— Tahir Shah

When I was in L.A., I thought I would never leave.

— Molly Qerim

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out…

— Max Thieriot

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and…

— Amy Adams

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

— Cree Summer

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down…

— Max Thieriot

I love to go on road trips. That's one thing I love about being in L.A. and having a car. In New York, you…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg