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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• Tracy Chapman:

  Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

• Tracy Chapman:

  Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's somet

• Tracy Chapman:

  The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It

• Tracy Chapman:

  We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate

• Tracy Chapman:

  When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and

• Tracy Chapman:

  With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've n

• Tracy Chapman:

  I'm a hopeful cynic.

• Tracy Chapman:

  We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

• Tracy Chapman:

  You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to

• Tracy Chapman:

  Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally a