I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
I grew up Greenville. And I moved to Raleigh some years later.
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.