That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.