Carlene Carter Quotes

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.

I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

When I'm happy and everything's great, I'm not creative at all.

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm here.' You have to stay confident and positive that you're going to write something.

I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then something happens and you start writing.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].