 I never excluded any genre on my first record. |
| My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album. |
| I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively. |
| My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire. |
| Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way. |
| Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first. |
| There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A. |
| The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless. |
| I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space. |
| No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations. |
| I never listened to country music growing up. |
| Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways. |
| I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. |
| But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. |
| I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others. |
| Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums. |
| It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover. |
| Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with. |
| I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention. |
| I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life. |
