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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. "
Mary Gauthier
Care
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She
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" What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. "
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" I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war. "
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" I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that. "
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" I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name. "
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Sugar
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" I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. "
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Done
Write
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" People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting. "
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Souls
" I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting. "
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Think
Trying
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" I don't know who my dad is. "
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Who
" I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. "
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Something
Life
Good Life
" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "
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Well
Art
Creates
" Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone. "
Mary Gauthier
Gone
Even
Me
" Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life. "
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Life
Been
Important
" There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry. "
Mary Gauthier
Learn
Misunderstanding
Ocean
" War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing. "
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Proud
Service
Experience
" By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle. "
Mary Gauthier
Time
You
Result
" I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment. "
Mary Gauthier
Think
Soldiers
Experience
" Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. "
Mary Gauthier
Healthy
Writing
My Life
" In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life. "
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Ways
Life
My Life
" Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it. "
Mary Gauthier
Soldiers
Got
Come
" I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be. "
Mary Gauthier
Just
Way
Going
" I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say. "
Mary Gauthier
Music
Say
Younger
" I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent. "
Mary Gauthier
Writer
Life
Halfway
" I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them. "
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Gay
Them
Lots
" I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid. "
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Afraid
Me
Someone
" When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed. "
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Some
Create
Desperation
" I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load. "
Mary Gauthier
Family
Service
Our
" What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship. "
Mary Gauthier
Finding
Family
Censorship
" My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there. "
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Find
You
Yourself
" When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. "
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Got
First
Much
" I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free. "
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Free
Sure
Think