I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I open to anything... just about anything.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.