Carlene Carter Quotes

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.

I wanna do a song with Bruno Mars.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

I like Lil Wayne.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.