I mean, you don't have any new product. I was like, 'Sorry. For the record, so to speak, Carpenter pronounces the word 'product' with the amplified disgust that most people reserve for, say, the word garbage. Such is the way of the music business. One girl's songs are another person's product.
Carpenter is that rare contemporary songwriter who works outside the box.
She is as talented as she is successful - she doesn't mind if people call her a country singer, just so long as they keep calling. So she views each new song, each new album, with one keen eye cast toward maintaining the highest quality afforded her craft and the other toward its potential place in posterity. If it sells, well, that's swell. Nothing wrong with owning a nice, new car, and eating is a privilege worth savoring. But her professional focus always remains fixed, not on the margin of profit, but on her ability to create and sustain a certain level of melodic grandeur and lyrical import.