I never excluded any genre on my first record.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in

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

I also love real estate and decorating.

How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

The wise pause

I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.

If coffee didn't exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.