Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.
I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.
I'm no hillbilly singer.
My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
I was kind of a little redneck growing up, living on a farm, and running around in the country. I developed hillbilly tendencies, but I wanted to listen to something a little more meaningful than "Redneck Woman" or whatever.
I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"
