Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.
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.
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.
I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
