"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Song, Want

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"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

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"The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it."

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"The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more."

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"Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices."

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"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."

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"The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings."

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"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"

Dumb

"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

Singing

"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."

Home

"About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas."

Age

"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."

Time

"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."

Money

"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."

Work

"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."

College

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Chance

"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."

Time