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

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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. "

" 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. "

Misunderstanding

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics. "

" 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. "

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

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" It can take me many months to write one of my own songs. "

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

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

" I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

" 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. "

" I don't have the experience of being in a war. "