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" 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. "

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" 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? "

Mary Gauthier

Mother

You

Think

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

Mary Gauthier

Good

Need

" 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. "

" I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them. "

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

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

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

Mary Gauthier

Peace

Place

" I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life. "

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

Mary Gauthier

Build

Here

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

" I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name. "

" 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. "

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

Mary Gauthier

Knew

Since

" Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books. "

" 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 guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me. "

Mary Gauthier

Guitar

Find

" There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike. "

Mary Gauthier

Story

Know

" 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. "

" In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness. "

Mary Gauthier

Early

Loneliness

" The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. "

Mary Gauthier

Job

Artist

" I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name. "

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

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

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

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

" If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do. "

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

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

" 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. "

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