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

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.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

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.

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

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