She also finds it interesting that when she goes out with a small band, she's considered a pop performer, whereas when she performs solo with just her guitar, she's more often booked in folk venues. I think you have to do that. There's no point in doing it to please other people because then they are not getting who you are. They're getting who you are trying to be for their benefit, which, ironically, I think ends up making you more self-centered as an artist. The song is the most important thing for Chapman.
Great songs can transcend style.
You can take a basically great song and give it to Tammy Wynette, or Tony Bennett, or Ella Fitzgerald, and it'll come out sounding really different, but it'll still be a great song. I've been working on it in between these other things. It's a project that seems to have its own agenda. Being an artist is giving the most that you can give. It's being very brave sometimes, going against what people try to tell you to do to make a living.