Deana Carter Quotes


"Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Experience)

"The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Songs)

"There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Freedom, Living)

"Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way."
- Deana Carter
"No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Music, Living)

"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."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Success, Time, Formula, Right)

"My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Father)

"I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Now, Years)

"I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Life, Song)

"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Artists)

"Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Parents)

"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Sound, Space)

"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."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Music, End, Marketing, Writing)

"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."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Life, Love, First, Songs, Trying)

"Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Country, First)

"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Idea, Successful)

"I never excluded any genre on my first record."
- Deana Carter
(Related: First)

"I never listened to country music growing up."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Music, Country, Country music, Growing up)

"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."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Attention, Nothing, Past)

"It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover."
- Deana Carter
(Related: Fantasy)