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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 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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Know

" I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders. "

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

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

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

" I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. "

" 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. "

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

" Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35. "

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

" What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. "

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

Mary Gauthier

Songwriting

Purpose

" I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too. "

Mary Gauthier

Heart

Know

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

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

" 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. "

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

Mary Gauthier

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Place

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

" 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. "

" I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it. "

" 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. "

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