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I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

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

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

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

I'm a Southerner.

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.