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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.