List of Tracy Chapman Quotes

I Love Living In California And Being Able To Go To The Beach Or Go To The Woods.

I Learn All These Things About The Record Talking About It After It's Finished.

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.

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.

I Got A Plan To Get Out Of Here, I've Been Working At A Convenient Store.

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.

I Dressed Up As A Veterinarian For A Halloween Costume Party. I Had The Lab Coat. I Got A Couple Of Stuffed Animals For Patients And Put Bandages On Them.

Everyone Is Looking For Connections Between The Songs. I Don't Usually Approach A Record As A Concept. There's No Overriding Theme I'm Trying To Represent. It's All About The Individual Songs.

My Old Man's Got A Problem, He Lives With The Bottle.

Love's A Recurring Theme Through My Work.

I Never Assumed I Would Have That Commercial Success, So It Was A Total Surprise. And Honestly, I Never Assumed That It Would Ever Happen Again.