Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the…

— Mary Gauthier

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard…

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they…

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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…

— Mary Gauthier

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

— Mary Gauthier

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with…

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the…

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my…

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier