My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

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• Carlene Carter:

  I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

• Carlene Carter:

  I've had a few ditty hits.

• Carlene Carter:

  I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I real

• Carlene Carter:

  Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

• Carlene Carter:

  There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

• Carlene Carter:

  I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

• Carlene Carter:

  I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I

• Carlene Carter:

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

• Carlene Carter:

  I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to

• Carlene Carter:

  I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.