One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.