80 Quotes by Carlene Carter

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.