“I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalia...” — Tracy Chapman Quote

“I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.”

“When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.”

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

“Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.”

“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.”

“I'm a hopeful cynic.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

“I went on Ellen once, and even then, I was just a bad performer. It was nerve-racking at first playing in front of all her fans who really wanted to see her. Her fans are so young and accepting to new people, and it helped that they knew 'Marvin Gaye,' too.”

“I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.”

“I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.”

“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”

“Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.”