I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My find my way back to you. Please… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was 'From each according to his or her… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I always considered trying to make a living playing music. But it was always really clear to me, at the various stages in my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
