I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.
My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.
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.
One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it - there are so many American folk heroes. There's the Coal Miner's Daughter, the Man in Black, the Red-Headed Stranger, and on and on.
At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama's girl growing up. I'm from the South, so there's always something about me when I'm just with my girls or even my mother. There's just a strong connection there.
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.
I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.
I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know, always in abundance.
I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie… I missed the South since I've been gone!
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!
Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
I'm from East Texas, yes.
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.
