Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.' — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.' — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say,… — Carlene Carter Grandmother Copy Share Image
I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related… — Carlene Carter Family Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am… — Carlene Carter Body Copy Share Image
I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep… — Carlene Carter Fear Copy Share Image
I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids.… — Carlene Carter Age Copy Share Image
MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was… — Carlene Carter Alive Copy Share Image
It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
