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Tracy Chapman

"I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night."

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"I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night."

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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."

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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."

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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."

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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

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"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that."

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"I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter."

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"You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood."

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"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."

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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."
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"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."
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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."
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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
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"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us."
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"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."
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"Love's a recurring theme through my work."
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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."
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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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