It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt. — Carlene Carter Being Copy Share Image
I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability. — Carlene Carter Ability Copy Share Image
If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years. — Carlene Carter Children Copy Share Image
In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child.… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the… — Carlene Carter Audience Copy Share Image
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all. — Carlene Carter Albums 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 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
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
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.' — 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
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 moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to… — 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
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 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
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
My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself. — Carlene Carter 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
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'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
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
