Matthew McConaughey: Why Hollywood's golden boy gave up California for Texas!

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey said in a recent addition to TODAY with Hoda & Jenna that he always planned to leave Los Angeles and return to his native Texas.

“This has always been a home, there are several reasons for that,” he shared on “Today.”

McConaughey, 54, was born in Uvalde but grew up in Livingston. He said he enjoys the slower pace in Texas.

“I have a great relationship with time here. This means that 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile. I like living in a place and want a home to be a place where I have a good relationship with time,” he said.

McConaughey also expressed that “there is a family unit” in the state that includes his 92-year-old mother and two older brothers. He said he wants to move back to Texas once he's ready to start his own family with his wife, Camila Alves.

“I wanted them to have what I grew up around…There's a lot of…common sense in it, it's not talked about, but we understand it here,” he said.

He now lives in Austin with his wife and three children. He said the city is “very creative” in a “state that is very structured” where people are accepted as they are.

“The rule in Austin is 'Be you' – that's always been the rule in this city – and we should make sure that stays the rule – just 'Be you,'” he said.