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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.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

I'm a Southerner.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.