Deana Carter Quotes

• "Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first."
• "But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
• "I adore Keith Urban - he's so talented and so cute, the whole bowl of wax."
• "I also love real estate and decorating."
• "I always love to write with Matraca."
• "I don't think I have that much of a stylistic influence, other than just embracing who you are and not worrying too much about the formalities in things. I LIKE casual."
• "I felt much more support in the UK from the EMI family than I did at Capitol Nashville, after the departure of Jimmy Bowen."
• "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 had many other influences from rock, folk, gospel, pop, r&b, and others."
• "I have recorded 7 albums total, and collaborated on several as well... .including the Anastasia Soundtrack, the Bruce Springsteen tribute, and various other compilations."
• "I love magazines and articles."
• "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 never listened to country music growing up."
• "I really miss the South, and I really find myself clinging to that part of who I am."
• "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 toured in Europe first, before I did ANY touring in the US. It was with Jimmy Nail and others."
• "I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
• "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 went into writing Sunny Day the same way, feeling I'm not good enough, I can't sing. It was the belief system."
• "I went to LA because it's been a childhood dream, to live in a city where you can do television, film, and music."
• "I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
• "I'm so talented now at colour co-ordinating rhinestones."
• "I'm still hopeful, that those people will take an open-minded approach to allowing an artist to create and produce... ..and not get in the way if they don't need to."
• "I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life."
• "I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively."
• "It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover."
• "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."
• "My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire."
• "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."
• "My son's birth this year was another level of that as well. Life is good right now."
• "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."
• "No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations."
• "Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way."
• "Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums."
• "The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."
• "There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A."
• "We play for fun, with LONG guitar solos."
• "Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways."