<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matthew-mcconaugheys-wife-opens-up-on-their-decision-to-leave-malibu-for-a-life-that-embodies-their-belief-system-in-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew McConaughey</a> talked about the inspiration behind his first children&#8217;s book &#8220;<a href="https://justbecausebook.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Because</a>&#8221; which he said came to him in the middle of the night like a song and &#8220;speaks to the kid in all of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matthew-mcconaugheys-wife-says-his-laid-back-and-getting-high-image-is-false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">53-year-old</a> actor said the idea of his debut kids picture book came to him like a &#8220;ditty in a dream. It was a song in my mind, and I got up and wrote it down,&#8221; <a href="https://people.com/matthew-mcconaughey-first-childrens-book-just-because-ditty-in-dream-exclusive-7965861?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=64f8b889305bb8000117a3c5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> magazine reported.</p>
<p>McConaughey said it contains a collection of struggles and various life lessons we all face, not just kids, and that it&#8217;s already sparked &#8220;a lot of good conversations&#8221; with his kids Levi, 15, Vida, 13, and Livingston, 10, wife Camila Alves, and even his 91-year-old mom Kay.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">for the kid in all of us <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustBecauseBook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JustBecauseBook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/audiobook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#audiobook</a> <a href="https://t.co/3bIDyPwvxo">pic.twitter.com/3bIDyPwvxo</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) <a href="https://twitter.com/McConaughey/status/1699073759662293402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;My mom&#8217;s 91 and she said, &#8216;That&#8217;s not just for kids. You even reminded me of some things in there,'&#8221; the superstar actor said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just being a dad, I mean, you&#8217;re thinking about your kids all the time [and] I think that afternoon, I&#8217;d been having conversations with my children about certain new things that they were crossing for the first time or, &#8216;Well, this happened and I&#8217;m not sure how to feel about it. And I wanted to do this, but I felt I needed to do this, and I was confused,'&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;Evidently it was in my subconscious … Once I knocked all the couplets down in the rhythm, it sort of wrote itself,&#8221; McConaughey continued.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Dallas Buyers Club&#8221; star said his kids have already given their seal of approval.</p>
<p>&#8220;They liked it,&#8221; McConaughey said. &#8220;Vida is very visual, so she loved the pictures that [illustrator] Renée [Kurilla] did. I ran it by my kids. We went through scenarios [explored] in it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Hollywood star said one of the parts that they connected to was a section that read,  &#8220;Just because you&#8217;re wailing, doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re a crier. Just because you lied, doesn&#8217;t mean you’re a liar.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We talked about that one quite a bit because my kids have seen it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We do it all the time: We label somebody. Somebody fibs to you: &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re a liar.&#8217; Well, that&#8217;s a big blanket to put on somebody. If you call someone a liar, they get defensive: &#8216;Whoa, my whole being? You mean I&#8217;m all about untruths?'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But if you say, &#8216;No, that was a lie,&#8217; that person has the choice now to go, &#8216;I know, I&#8217;m sorry about that,'&#8221; McConaughey continued.</p>
<p>His book follows the &#8220;Interstellar&#8221; star&#8217;s first dive into publishing when he released his bestselling book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Greenlights/dp/B08HLW2JXD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CXMQN2LIL2I&amp;keywords=greenlights+matthew+mcconaughey+book&amp;qid=1694028322&amp;sprefix=GReenlights%2Caps%2C173&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenlights</a>&#8221; in 2020, which deals with trials and tribulations he&#8217;s faced in his own life.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just Because&#8221; is due out September 12.</p>

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