Rural Roots Quotes

Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.

St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

I'm country at heart. I love doing normal stuff, like back in my rookie year when nobody knew who I was, and I could grab dinner and have normal conversations.

My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

I'm a laid-back Texas boy.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

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

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

My parents hail from a village near Mysore.

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

We're just Southern people.

I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.