Time* Sex* Love* is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Columbia Nashville on May 29, 2001.

6 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and produced two singles: "Simple Life," which peaked at No.

Despite its low airplay ranking, "Simple Life" spent 28 weeks on Billboard's Top 25 Country Singles Sales chart,[8] peaking at No.

[9] The album was recorded at George Martin's AIR Studios in London.

The asterisks in the title refer to a comment producer John Jennings made about the album's content: "Time is the great gift; sex is the great equalizer; love is the great mystery"[10] All tracks are written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, except where noted