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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

I'm a Midwesterner.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.