I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.