Quotes About Heritage

My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

I'm too Southern.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

We're just Southern people.

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand my musical horizons. Now I have a deep appreciation for southern heritage music.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.

I'm a Georgia Southern boy.