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" I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way. "
Mary Gauthier
Years
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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 I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique. "
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" I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation. "
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" Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose. "
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" I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life. "
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" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "
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" Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of. "
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" I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible. "
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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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" 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. "
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Way
Going
" I don't know who my dad is. "
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" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "
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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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World
Business
" I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like? "
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Wonder
Process
" Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35. "
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Kind
Always
Anchor
" There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice. "
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Tribe
Thing
" 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
" In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life. "
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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 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
Literature
" Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone. "
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Gone
Even
Me
" I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me. "
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Guitar
Find
Me
" I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them. "
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Gay
Them
Lots
" I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders. "
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Because
Terrible
" I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33. "
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Playing
Writing
Started
" 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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" 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. "
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Say
Younger
" It can take me many months to write one of my own songs. "
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" Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life. "
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Been
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