Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenteris an American singer, songwriter and musician. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth21 February 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.
I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.
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 from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.