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I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.

I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.