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

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

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

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.

It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.