You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone". — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper.… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe.… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
