Ray Charles Quotes

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I know that I come from a place of small-town roots and of humble beginnings and I try to keep those things in my songs - just stuff that I know people like me can relate to.

I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

I'm basically a country person.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

I'm really just a country boy.

At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

I'm a real big country boy.

I'm a country boy.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I am a country boy at heart.

I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.

I'm just a simple country girl.

He was so confident. But underneath that, behind the scenes, I knew Michael Jordan was a country kid from North Carolina, and it was that simple to him. He was a young man, at heart, who wanted to be one of the guys who loved to play and was willing to do whatever was necessary.

I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.