Deana Carter

“No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.”

“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.”

“I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.”

“There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.”

“I never excluded any genre on my first record.”

“It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.”

“Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.”

“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 wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.”

“I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.”

“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.”

“Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.”

“I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.”

“I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.”

“Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.”

“But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.”

“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.”

“I never listened to country music growing up.”

“My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.”