Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

— Mary Gauthier

'I Drink' took me two years to write.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I think music is the highest form of healing.

— Mary Gauthier

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

— Mary Gauthier

I don't know who my dad is.

— 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

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to…

— Mary Gauthier

If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our…

— 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 think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their…

— Mary Gauthier

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It…

— Mary Gauthier

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth…

— Mary Gauthier

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly…

— Mary Gauthier

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing…

— Mary Gauthier

I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal…

— 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

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that…

— 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

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business -…

— Mary Gauthier

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held…

— Mary Gauthier

Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it.…

— Mary Gauthier

I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending.…

— Mary Gauthier

I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Mary Gauthier

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

— Mary Gauthier