Deana Carter Quotes

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

If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in

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

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

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

I also love real estate and decorating.

How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?

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.

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

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

I'm so honored to be on this recording with Ann & Nancy Wilson. They are iconic and I've truly been one of their biggest fans since I was a kid. And what a perfect song to sing with them, since I adore Vince Gill and have been very proud for his commitment to his own musical vision. When we were recording at Nancy's house, and even though I'm friends with those girls now, I had to keep 'pinching' myself and marvel at how blessed my life is! It was a very PROUD moment for me.

I never listened to country music growing up.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

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

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.

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

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

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.