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I'm a Midwesterner.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

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.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.