Deana Carter Quotes (29 Quotes)

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

I also love real estate and decorating.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

I guess I wasn't sure how people would respond to it (her album). Then I thought to myself, 'If you have to be something you're not, then why do it at all'

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

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.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

We play for fun, with LONG guitar solos.

I know she always gets left out ... She's the saint and the glue of our family. She has a beautiful voice and she wrote songs early on in their marriage. But she pretty much just raised us kids and let my dad go and be in the studio 24-7 and travel. She maintained the house and stayed home with us. She's a perfect woman. She's just perfect.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends we weren't steeped in country music by any means, ... We liked what everybody else liked at the time. It was like Journey and classic rock. We listened to rock when we were kids and we loved it. That's what we did. Getting older is when you got introduced to country music.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

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.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Me And The Radio is probably the most directed at my divorce and a turning point in my life to having to make a conscious choice to move on.

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.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.