“I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family lif...” — Carlene Carter Quote

“I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.”

“I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.”

“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.”

“My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.”

“I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.”

“I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.”