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

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" What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption. "

" 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. "

" People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top. "

" People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside. "

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

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

" When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young. "

" I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song. "

" I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible. "

" 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. "

" I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

" It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you. "

" I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. "

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

" 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. "

" Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me. "

" A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them. "

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

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" I don't know who my dad is. "

" 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. "

" What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique. "

" I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth. "

" Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone. "

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