Oklahoma Culture Quotes

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that."

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

I do think there is a segment of people in Oklahoma that really do love the Flaming Lips and love this other idea of what someone from Oklahoma could be like. I've sort of become the spokesperson for this "other person" who could come from Oklahoma.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.