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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."

"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."

"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
Explore more quotes by Tracy Chapman


"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."


"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."


"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."


"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."


"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"


"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."


"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
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