Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

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".

I 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.

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

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 see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...