My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.