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

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

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

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.