I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
Some people say I'm not country, but they don't really know how I grew up.
I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.
I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
I'm a simple, country, small-town girl at heart. I try and stick to the values that I learned as a child, and I lead my life as such.
Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
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 grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
I am from Des Moines, Iowa - not even the city but out in the country. I don't have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I'm just a simple person with a silly bone.
