Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.
Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.
I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.
I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
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.
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.
My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.
I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.
I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.
We're just Southern people.
Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.
The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.
I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.
I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.
When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.
