I always took it as both an homage to California and a goodbye. "I'm all done" seemed to say to me that he's a little fed up with California and it's time to hit road and go somewhere else. "It ain't like anywhere else" could be taken both ways, as both a positive and a negative. Which is pretty much the way I feel about California: the natural diversity with deserts, beaches, forests, etc is like nowhere else, and it has much to offer. But bad national trends always seem to start in California, the traffic is insane, the smog is bad, the illegal alien population is in crisis proportions, the housing costs are insane, the concrete jungle is everywhere (at least in SoCal), gangs and graffiti are infesting too many towns, and I'm fed up with all of that and am ready to hit the road and go somewhere else.
I always took it as both an homage to California and a goodbye. "I'm all done" seemed to say to me that he's a little fed up with California and it's time to hit road and go somewhere else. "It ain't like anywhere else" could be taken both ways, as both a positive and a negative. Which is pretty much the way I feel about California: the natural diversity with deserts, beaches, forests, etc is like nowhere else, and it has much to offer. But bad national trends always seem to start in California, the traffic is insane, the smog is bad, the illegal alien population is in crisis proportions, the housing costs are insane, the concrete jungle is everywhere (at least in SoCal), gangs and graffiti are infesting too many towns, and I'm fed up with all of that and am ready to hit the road and go somewhere else.