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" I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. "
Mary Gauthier
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" I don't know who my dad is. "
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" I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders. "
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" I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. "
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" What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. "
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" Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me. "
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" Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen. "
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" If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do. "
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" I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them. "
Mary Gauthier
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" I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me. "
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" There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice. "
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Tribe
Thing
" I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. "
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Since
" When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day. "
Mary Gauthier
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Work
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" People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting. "
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" Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it. "
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Got
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" I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice. "
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Life
Hope
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" What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique. "
Mary Gauthier
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Years
" I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool. "
Mary Gauthier
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" They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect. "
Mary Gauthier
Fight
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" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "
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" I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain. "
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Think
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" A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them. "
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About
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" I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name. "
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" I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way. "
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Way
Work
" The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. "
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Go
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" In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life. "
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Life
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" I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it. "
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" If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane. "
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" I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace. "
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Place