Matthew McConaughey went into detail on his decision to move his family from Los Angeles to his native Texas on Thursday’s edition of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.

The Academy Award-winning actor, 54, was asked by Hoda Kotb, 60, why he chose to make the move back, despite working in an industry based out of Southern California.

‘This has always been home, I mean, there’s multiple reasons for that,’ McConaughey said on the morning show, which was on location in Austin, Texas. ‘I mean, this is where I have a great relationship with time – meaning 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile.’

McConaughey – who is father to three children with wife Camila Alves, 41- Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11 – added, ‘I like to live in a place and for a home to be a place where I have a good relationship with time.’

The Dallas Buyers Club star noted that his family is based out of Texas, including his mother, 92, and brothers who live in Houston and Midland.

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Matthew McConaughey, 54, went into detail on his decision to move his family from Los Angeles to his native Texas on Thursday’s edition of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna

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McConaughey appeared the morning show as it was on location in Austin, Texas

‘Our family unit is here – we have resources and a backbone of security here,’ The Lincoln Lawyer actor added.

McConaughey said he had always intended to head back home as he grew his family with Alves, a Brazilian model and designer.

The Lone Star State native and his spouse exchanged vows at their home in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2012, and moved back there (from Malibu, California) two years later.

‘I wanted them to have what I grew up around,’ McConaughey said. ‘There’s a solid … amount of common sense that runs through it, it’s untalked about, but we understand it here.’

He hailed Austin as a ‘very creative city in a state that is very structured,’ and one where people are accepted for who they are.

‘The rule in Austin is “Be You” – that’s always been the rule in this city – and we should make sure that that remains the rule – just “Be You,”‘ he said.

McConaughey, who was born in Uvalde, Texas and raised in Longview, Texas, went to college at the University of Texas at Austin prior to entering show business. He remains an ardent fan of the school’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, often appearing on sidelines at games.

His appearance came days after he took to social media condemning the conduct of a segment of Longhorns fans after they pelted the field with bottles after their loss to the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday, in protest of a call that went against the home team.

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He said on the NBC show, ‘I mean, this is where I have a great relationship with time – meaning 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile’

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The Oscar-winning actor and his family moved from Malibu, California to Austin, Texas in 2014

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 He said of Texas, ‘There’s a solid … amount of common sense that runs through it, it’s untalked about, but we understand it here’

‘Let’s get real about the bottle bombing the field glitch we had,’ said McConaughey. ‘Not cool. Bogey move.’

‘Yeah, that call was BS, but we’re better than that. Longhorn Nation knows how to show up, show out like no other, and still keep our class. So, going forward let’s clean that kind of BS up and leave that behind us for good.’

The couple this past March chat with the publication Southern Living about their marriage and family life, detailing their decision to move.

‘We were living a happy life in Malibu,’ Alves said. ‘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.’

Alves said an emergency initially led the family to go to Austin to help McConaughey’s mother Kay McConaughey and his brothers.

In that time, she noticed that his mood was much lighter in his native Texas than it had been in California.

Alves said that while they were driving, she noticed that the True Detective actor had a ‘peaceful but confident, energetic look’ about him. She asked him, ‘You want to move here, don’t you?’ to which he said, ‘Yep.’

Alves said that she’s comfortable in Texas, as the local culture parallels certain aspects of how she grew up in Brazil.

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McConaughey went to college at the University of Texas at Austin  and remains an ardent fan of the school’s football team, the Texas Longhorns, often appearing on sidelines at games. Pictured Saturday

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On Monday, he took to social media condemning the conduct of a segment of Longhorns fans after they pelted the field with bottles after their loss to the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday, in protest of a call that went against the home team

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McConaughey and wife Camila Alves, 41,  were pictured with their three kids Levi, 16, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11, on April 25 at an event for his nonprofit at ACL Live in Austin, Texas

‘We grew up saying, “Yes, ma’am” and “No, sir” or – as I should say – “Yes, ma’am” and “Yes, sir,” Alves said. ‘It takes me right back to how I was raised.’

The Dazed and Confused alum explained the details of what made his homecoming a decade ago so special.

‘Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night,’ he said, ‘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.’