Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

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

A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

I love rock n' rollers.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

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've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.