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I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I was born and raised in southern Utah.