I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the… — 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,… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians… — 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… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in,… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go… — 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
