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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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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Singer-Songwriter
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Princeton
New Jersey
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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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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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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.
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You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
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I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
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I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.
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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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