Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them.