I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

I'm just trying to matter.

How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.