I grew up two miles from here and I live in Malibu, but it was really a very different Malibu instead of the glamour of Hollywood, what people think now — it was very much — my dad was an artist’s artist, people who loved horses and the land. ((Once I Had Pig)) And the Hollywood people who moved out here, moved out here, because it was really to be close to nature. So, I grew up very close to nature, and what I realized was that — and I realized this when I studied in New York, that being close to nature had really made me very Emersonian, meaning very much about a type of deeper transcendental spirit that I felt active, because I did spend so much time in the outdoors as a child and really with nature. ((Crisis Of The Soul, Intelligence Of Nature, Nature, Nature Lover, Nature Writes The Menu, These Lights))