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" If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree. "

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" Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose. "

" Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart. "

" I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. "

" Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen. "

" I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free. "

" A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one. "

" I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. "

" When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. "

" I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace. "

" I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple. "

" 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. "

" I think music is the highest form of healing. "

" Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. "

" Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation. "

" There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice. "

" I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life. "

" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "

" I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention. "

" As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness. "

" The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not? "

" I got issues. Boy, have I got issues. "

" I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool. "

" 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. "

" In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life. "