I love to be surrounded by nature.

I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.

I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

My songs are about who I am.

I'm pretty much an open book.

If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

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'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.