Speaking of the mall, you're a designer and live in L.A., which has some pretty fabulous stores. So when you're home in North Carolina, where do you head for a little retail therapy? There's actually really great shopping in Raleigh. Cameron Village has a bunch of boutiques - good clothes and jewelry and fun stores with antiques. North Carolina is the capital of antiques, and in High Point, you can find great antiques shopping. And, of course, there's Crabtree Valley Mall, which has all the nice stores that we have here in California, like Restoration Hardware and J. Crew.

What about sports? North Carolinians can be crazed about their basketball and such. Are you a fan? Well, the thing to do in Raleigh is to go to the RBC Center to see the Carolina Hurricanes. They won the Stanley Cup last year, which was pretty exciting! You'd also go there for all the concerts.

But the RBC Center wasn't there when you were a kid, right? No, when I was a kid - and this is still around - we'd go to the Walnut Creek Amphitheater. It's the outdoor theater where we would go to see people like Jimmy Buffett and the Allman Brothers. These days, everyone from Kid Rock to Dave Matthews performs there.

And you've already mentioned that you're a fan of your hometown's minor-league team. Yeah, the Kinston Indians. I'm at the stadium every time I go home. [Kinston is about 77 miles from Raleigh.] It's a beer-and-hot-dogs place, and it is the pride of our town. There's actually a Bojangles' stand there, so you can eat chicken and biscuits! We have a great team every year, and Cam often has the Stealth bombers fly overhead. We have four or five major military bases in North Carolina, so there's a lot of pride in that. When they fly overhead, it gives you the chills.