There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The secret to loving relationships is to never give more love than you have for yourself.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.