Fans of Matthew McConaughey are getting some news that’s all right, all right, all right.

The Texas actor is writing a book called Greenlights, due out from Random House imprint Crown this fall. The publisher says the book will contain “anecdotes, poetry, lessons, and damn good yarns from his life.”

“This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life,” McConaughey said in a news release, probably in a folksy drawl. “Adventures that have been significant, enlightening, and funny, sometimes because they were meant to be but mostly because they didn’t try to be.”

The book is inspired by a diary that McConaughey has been writing since he was 15. He says it will contain “my sights and seens, felts and figured outs, cools and shamefuls.” (It’s not clear which of the latter two categories his naked bongo incident fits into, but we’re going with “cool.”)

McConaughey’s career has taken a turn for the academic lately. Last year, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas’ Moody College of Communication as a professor of practice.

Greenlights, named after a color that McConaughey seems to particularly enjoy, will contain some memoir-like elements, the publisher said, and his thoughts about the power of “either changing your reality or changing how you see it.”

McConaughey also spoke about the book in a video posted to Twitter.

Greenlights is slated for publication on Oct. 20. (Apparently Random House couldn’t wait until 4/20.)

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.