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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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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.
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I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, It's very you, and that made me feel good.
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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
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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.
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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.
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