Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves talk about why they moved to Texas from California

More than 100,000 people moved from California to Texas last year, but Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves did it way back in 2014, and they talked about why they did so in a recent interview.

"We were living a happy life in Malibu," Alves told Southern Living magazine about the move. "We had a beautiful house that we'd built together and put a lot of love and care into. We were raising our kids there. I was growing everything in the yard. I had bees making honey."

But then the family went through a crisis that required the couple to spend a lot of time in Texas, and it got McConaughey thinking.

"Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them all in different ways than we told them before," he said.

He also likes being away from the Hollywood drama when he's not working on a project.

"Time slowed down," he said. "The clock was right, the body clock. And part of that is ritual; part of that is just the distance between places and the way people move. But it's also the hospitality, the courtesy, the common sense, the lack of drama."