80 Quotes by Carlene Carter

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

I love rock n' rollers.

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.