I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
Mary Chapin CarpenterI was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.
Mary Chapin CarpenterAs far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.
Mary Chapin Carpenter