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I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

I come from generations of farmers.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.