What auto and steel is to Ohio River Valley, refineries are to the oil REGIONS. You wouldn't TELL Silicon Valley you're GOING to PUT a moratorium on high-tech.

I was one of the BEST wrestlers in Ohio.

In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already MADE it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left BEHIND. NOWHERE is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and SALES taxes are going up.

I'm street SMART. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi SOMEWHERE, Ohio somewhere, to New York CITY for the first TIME, he don't have the street smarts. You can TAKE him.

It's jarring to LIVE in a world where every person feels his life will only GET better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that THINGS have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real STRUGGLES in other parts of the COUNTRY. So I decided to move home to Ohio.

From the Marines, from Ohio STATE, from Yale, from other places, PEOPLE have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that SOCIAL CAPITAL gap that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.

I wrote 'Ohio,' and it was really AWESOME to be able to SHARE that with my FANS because a lot of them can relate to not having a parent in their LIFE. It's really one of my FAVOURITE songs to sing live.

I COME from a SMALL TOWN in Ohio and was ALWAYS into SPORTS.

I MOVED to L.A. at 17, and for the fist TIME, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving BACK to Ohio - and I didn't WANT to do that at all.

I READ this BOOK when I was young. It's about a black girl GROWING up in Heaven, Ohio. The COVER has a black girl with CLOUDS behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.

A LOT of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same STOCK. Yet something MUST have happened when we CROSSED the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out WEST.

Ohio State University PUTS out some very FINE football players.

I TOOK the state of Ohio from an $8 BILLION hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a GAIN of 350,000 jobs.

I'm a Midwestern girl; I was BORN in Toledo, Ohio, and GREW up in Dayton until I was ten YEARS old. Then my whole LIFE changed.